A CARVED IVORY FIGURE OF MARY MAGDALENE

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A CARVED IVORY FIGURE OF MARY MAGDALENE
GERMAN, 17TH CENTURY

On a later rectangular wood and tortoiseshell socle.
Numerous minor cracks; the left shoulder and one finger from the left hand repaired.
12 5/8in. (32.1cm.) high
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
E.F. Bange, Die Kleinplastik der deutschen Renaissance, Munich, 1928, pl. 86
Y. Hackenbroch, Bronzes, other Metalwork and Sculpture in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, London, 1962, p. 36, pl. 157

Lot Essay

The present figure would appear to be by the same hand as a statuette representing Vanity from the Untermyer Collection, which shares its highly distinctive facial type and exuberantly carved hair. It has been argued by Hackenbroch (loc. cit.) that the latter was produced in Nuremberg, by analogy with two further figures representing Cleopatra and Lucretia in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum in Munich, attributed by Bange to the Master P.E. of Nuremberg (Bange, loc. cit.).

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