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Relief (appliqué) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 114 mm
Width: 62 mm
Depth: 20 mm

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ standing on the Virgin's left knee; Christ in long robe; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; Christ making a blessing gesture with his right hand; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; crown; belt.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy.

Reverse
Uncarved.

Object Condition
Very worn. Crown chipped.
Verical break to the right.

Provenance
Christie's, Paris, 21 June 2006, lot 202. Marc-Arthur Kohn, Paris, 5 March 2013, lot 3.

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