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Statuette (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Private collection, London (in 2010)

S/n

Ivory

Height: 118mm
Width: 38mm
Depth: 24mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on right arm; Christ turning the pages of a book; Virgin holding an open book in her left hand.

Unpublished.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: part of the child, including head and bust.
Base chipped near the Virgin's left foot.

Provenance
Goldschmidt collection. Private collection, London: bought from Kunsthandel Vecht, Amsterdam, 6 March 2008.

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