Gothic Ivories Project | Statuette (Front)

Statuette (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

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S/n

Ivory

Height: 375 mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; bare-chested Christ.

Unpublished.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive gilding and polychromy: pattern on the cloak and robe, painted inscription along the hem of the Virgin's cloak including the letter M.

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Collection of Michel Boy, Paris: his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 13-14 May 1905, lot 305 (with repr.).

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