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Statuette (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
www.museodiocesanomantova.it

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Mantua, Museo Diocesano Francesco Gonzaga

Inv. 93

Ivory

Height: 635mm (140mm base)

Standing Virgin and Child; blessing gesture; Christ in long robe; crown.

Museum's opinion 2013: end of the 19th century - beginning of the 20th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy.

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Bequest of Ciro Ferrari in 1985.

Bibliography
P. Venturelli, Ori e Avori (Mantua, 2012), no. 98.

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