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Statuette (Back)

Statuette (Back)
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Front

Side

Front

Side

Side

Subject
Religious.

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S/n

Ivory

Height: 368mm

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ seated on the Virgin's left knee; Christ in long robe; Christ holding a bird in his left hand; Virgin holding a fruit in her right hand; crown; belt; bench.

Mannheim 1907: France, 13th century (?).


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round. Back of the throne flat and smooth.

Provenance
Collection of Rodolphe Kann: his sale, 1907, lot 17 (J. Mannheim, Catalogue of the Rodolphe Kann collection. Objets d'art (Paris, 1907), no. 17). Demotte collection, early 20th century. Collection of Clarence Mackay in 1939.
Note: the order of the provenance has not been verified.

Bibliography
The Art News (20 May 1939).


Image

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

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