An attractive French white marble figure of Mary Annunciate in Île-de-France, Gothic, mid 14th century style

delicately carved in almost full round, the Virgin depicted standing in an S-pose, holding a book, the missing right hand raised in benediction, clad in an elaborately and smoothly draped long mantle over a girded tunic

Drapery on Her proper right with minor chip, Her left foot chipped at the point, the nose re-stuck.
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Stylistically the present figure is based on a group of mid 14th century, Île-de-France Gothic marble Virgins, such as the 'Vierge à Enfant' in the Musée de Cluny from the Ancienne Abbaye de Longchamp (Cl. 18762), a similar group in the Musée de Louvre (inv. 147. donation Arconati Visconti, 1914) and another one in St. Denis, assumedly all from the same artist or workshop.