the standing Virgin draped with elegant folds, traces of painted patterned decoration on her garment, her right hand raised, holding the Child in her left, His head upturned and His right hand upon her breast, His left hand touching hers, the heads of both figures scored for crowns, the Virgin wearing a silver crown and the Child's crown lacking.

Some wear and small losses/chips throughout including back edge of His drapery and around base. Remainders of polychromy.
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See Pope-Hennessy, Italian Sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London 1964, no. 676 for a discussion of an example of the very closely related group of alabasters of the Virgin and Child at the church of the Annunziata at Trapani, which in turn probably derives from a lost prototype by Nino Pisano.  Similar examples were sold in these rooms December 4, 1982, lot 48, and January 11, 1994, lot 168.