A CARVED IVORY RELIEF OF THE MADONNA IMMACULATA

SOUTH GERMAN, LATE 17TH OR EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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A CARVED IVORY RELIEF OF THE MADONNA IMMACULATA
SOUTH GERMAN, LATE 17TH OR EARLY 18TH CENTURY
On a later spreading circular coloured marble base.
Very minor cracks; very minor chips to base.
6 in. (16.3 cm.) high

Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
R. Berliner, Die Bildwerke des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums, IV, Augsburg, 1926, no. 451.

Lot Essay

This image of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception refers to the doctrine which maintains that unlike all others, the Virgin was free from sin from the time of her own conception.

For an almost identical ivory figure, catalogued as South German, early 18th century, see Berliner, loc. cit.

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