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Statuette (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Monza, Museo e tesoro del Duomo di Monza

MG0228

Ivory

Height: 650 mm (with base)
Width: 200 mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ in long robe; Christ seated on left arm; blessing gesture; crown.
Unidentified coat of arms on the base (bishop's mitre and crozier; cross).

Museum's opinion 2014: French (?), 18th-19th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Gift of Pope Paul VI (1963-1978) to Peppino Vismara (b. 1888, d. 1974).

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