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Ivory

Height: 135mm
Width: 105mm

Seated Christ holding a staff with his left hand and making a blessing gesture with his right hand; seated apostle (?) holding a book.

Molinier 1890: French, 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Repairs to the hands and staff (?), possibly in a different material.

Provenance
Collection of Frédéric Spitzer, Paris: his sale, Chevallier and Mannheim, Paris, 17 April 1893, lot 118. Demotte collection, early 20th century. Drouot, Paris, 20 June 1961, lot 21.

Bibliography
La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1890), I, no. 83 (E. Molinier).


Image

© Fonds Demotte at The Cloisters Archives of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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