Immaculate Conception Ivory Sculpture

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Representation of the Immaculate Virgin. In an attitude of prayer, she wears a tunic close to the waist on which she in turn  wears a cloak that flares up in flights to the left. Has small facial features, has polychromy in the eyes, eyebrows and lips, and has the lobes of pierced ears. Her hair falls down her shoulders and back in strands.

Analysis:  It is a colonial ivory, Hispanic-Filipino: by the way of making the fins of the nose, the disposition of the fingers of the hands, which are all born from the same line, and the thick soles of shoes, although it has Sinhalese influence in the way of treating hair. By the eyes painted can be dated to the end of the seventeenth century. The ivory in which the image is made -a hollow tusk up to the neck - it is of very good quality and very fine carving.

Additional description: Female figure in an attitude of prayer dressed in a tunic. Loose hair on the shoulders. With polychrome eyes, eyebrows and lips.It is a representation of the Immaculate Virgin in Spanish-Filipino ivory dating from the late seventeenth century.

One of the main routes for the penetration of Christian worship in the East was the visual arts. It was about making the new religion reach local societies through the evangelizing function of Dominican, Franciscan and Jesuit missionaries through cult images, identifying the new Christian iconographies with the eastern physiognomic types.

BIBLIOGRAFÍA: Adquisiciones de bienes culturales 2001, Madrid, 2004, p. 172.

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