Gothic Ivories Project | Statuette (Front)

Statuette (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 370mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; Christ in long robe.

Koechlin Number: 0072

Koechlin 1924: France, late 13th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy or gilding: along the hem of the Virgin's cloak.

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: left hand of Christ and right forearm of the Virgin.

Provenance
Sale, Paris, 3 March 1898, lot 73.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), II. no. 72.

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