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Statuette (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Metal (later crown);ivory

Height: 96 mm (ivory only)

Seated Virgin and Child (Virgo lactans); Christ sitting on the Virgin's left knee; Christ playing with veil of his mother; Christ in long robe; bench; belt.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: red (Christ's robe), blue (Virgin's veil and cloak), gold (pattern along the hem; back of the throne)

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Scoring on the bottom.

Provenance
Christie's, London, 2 December 2014, lot 3.

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