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Virgin in ivory Goa 18th century

Name: Virgin in ivory Goa 18th century
Brand: Antikeo
SKU: HDE6DWTR6L
Price: 2800 EUR
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By Gallery Le Clos Palmyre

2.800 €

Period 18th century

Style Other style

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From: 59000, Lille, France

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Virgin in ivory, traces of polychromy notably on the lips and numerous gold highlights in the hair and the border of the garment, nicely accentuating the effects of modeling and volume.
Indo-Portuguese work from Goa, 18th century.
Religious ivory statuary from Goa was very popular with the European nobility and upper middle classes in the 17th and 18th centuries. Our statuette is a fine example of this, as witnessed by the shape of its custom-made portable altar from the same period, the wooden core of which is covered with precious red grained leather, gilded with small-iron gold.
Height of the Virgin 12 cms
Certificate quoted.

Goa, on the west coast of India, was a Portuguese colony from 1510 to 1961. The small coastal region was conquered by Afonso de Albuquerque (circa 1453-1515) and became an important trading post for the oriental spice trade. For 450 years, Goa was the capital of the entire Portuguese Empire east of the Cape of Good Hope.
The Viceroy of Portuguese India resided in Goa, and ships from the port crossed the empire from East Africa to Japan, bringing horses, spices, slaves and other goods that could then be traded in other Asian ports or sent back to Lisbon. Goa's population was made up of a minority of Europeans, a large number of mixed European-Asian, and a large majority of Hindu farmers.

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