DIEPPE, 19TH CENTURY

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A FRENCH CARVED IVORY TRIPTYCH FIGURE
DIEPPE, 19TH CENTURY
Depicting a woman wearing a sixteenth century costume, the skirt revealing three carved panels, the central panel depicting a woman kneeling in front of a throne inscribed to the base Philippine Welser, flanked to each side by a panel depicting a wedding ceremony and a woman comforting a prisoner allegorical for Charity
20.5 cm. high

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Lot Essay

Philippine Welser (Augsburg 1527 - 1580 Schloss Ambrass, Innsbruck) daughter of an Augsburg patrician family, secretely married Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria in 1557, son of the Holy Roman Emporer Ferdinand I.

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