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Statuette (Front)

Statuette (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Padua, Musei Civici, Museo d'Arte, Arti Applicate e Decorative

Inv. 1935

Ivory

Height: 120 cm

Standing veiled female figure with hands in prayer.

Museum's opinion 2013: 13th or 15th century (?)


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.
White label with handwritten inscription: ‘Avorio del sec. XIII (?) legato dal sen. G. Cittadella Vigodarzere al M. Bottacin. Alt. cm. 12’ and the red inscription: ‘7965’.

Object Condition
Very worn. Chipped. The bottom is drilled.

Provenance
Collection of Gino Cittadella Vigodarzere (b. 1844, d. 1917): his bequest to the Museo Bottacin in 1919.


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