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Subject
Religious. Saints.

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Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, Museum of Art

13.1491B

Ivory

Height: 143mm

Saint Barbara with tower; crown.

Museum's opinion 2012: France, 19th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive gilding and polychromy: gold (floral patterns on the cloak and robe; crown; along the hems), red (cloak).

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Underside has crosshatching.

Comments
This piece forms a pair with a statuette of saint Louis, also in Providence (13.149A). The two statuettes are contained in a box with a coat of arms (a bend, with two fleur-de-lis), which seems inspired by the arms of the dukes of Bourbon.

Provenance
Gift of Mrs Jesse H. Metcalf to the Museum in 1913.


Image

© Photography by Erik Gould, courtesy of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence.
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Jesse H. Metcalf 13.1491.

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