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LOT 631
Sold for (Inc. bp): £10,350
MEDIEVAL LIMESTONE MADONNA WITH ORB STATUETTE
(2.9 Kg, 37 cm tall.).
(2.9 Kg, 37 cm tall.).
Mid-14th to early 15th century AD. A delicately carved (probably in Caen stone) Rheims full-length figurine of a robed and long-haired female saint (or the Virgin Mary?) holding and looking at an orb in her right hand; set upon a square integral base, the hands showing the typical long, slender and straight fingers of the Romanesque style.
PROVENANCE:
Ex Christie's Sale 5023, 22 January 2006, Lot 76; ex the late Michael Collishaw Collection.
FOOTNOTES:
This figurine is a good example of medieval ecclesiastical statuary and would probably have been set into a niche in a shrine.
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