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Statuette (Front)

Statuette (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Aillant-sur-Tholon, parish church

S/n

Ivory

Height: 230mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ in long robe; Christ seated on left arm; Christ holding a bunch of grapes with both hands.

Palissy (2009): 15th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: crown. The crown probably was in metal: traces of attachment on the head.

Provenance
From the Hermitage Sainte-Anne and chapel of Notre-Dame de Lorette (http://chapelle.aillant.free.fr/chapelle_presentation.htm); said by Abbé Noirot to have been brought to the presbytery by Abbé Casimir Pautrat (1883-1904).

Bibliography
Palissy database: http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/dapapal_fr [accessed September 2009].


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