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Statuette (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Private collection, Italy (in 2010)

S/n

Ivory

Height: 160mm

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ in long robe; Christ seated on right arm; Virgin holding Christ's foot in her left hand; crown.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: right hand of Christ.
Crown chipped.

Comments
On a velvet base with the Maria Baer collection label.

Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 5 July 1990. Maria Baer collection. Ken Thomson collection. Private collection, London: bought, Sotheby's, London, 9 April 2003, lot 2; private collection, Italy (by way of gift in 2008).

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