Live Auction 2855The Decorative Arts Sale
A CARVED IVORY FIGURE OF DENNIS AUGUSTE AFFRE, ARCHBISHOP OF PARIS
Lot 172

A CARVED IVORY FIGURE OF DENNIS AUGUSTE AFFRE, ARCHBISHOP OF PARIS

FRENCH, MID 19TH CENTURY

Closed22 September 2010

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EUR 1,000

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A CARVED IVORY FIGURE OF DENNIS AUGUSTE AFFRE, ARCHBISHOP OF PARIS
FRENCH, MID 19TH CENTURY
Depicted standing on a ring-turned ebony socle, inscribed D.A. Affre, Arch/que de Paris
17 cm. high (incl. socle)
Together with an ivory figure of Voltaire, French, 19th Century, 15 cm. high (2)

Specialist note

Affre was made archbishop of Paris in 1840. He was killed in 1848 whilst trying to negotiate with the insurgents.