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Auction Date: Sunday, April 6, 2014
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Price information
Estimate € 1200 - € 1600
Hammer € 1100
Number of Bids 22
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LotNumber
217
Description

Ivory tusk 'Madonna and Child' below two horn blowing angels, on wooden pedestal, design & execution Pieter Biesiot (1890 - 1980), in own studio 1925-'30
Executed
Own studio
Signature
Tusk signed with monogram PB, wooden base signed with PBiesiot
Year of execution
1925-'30
Height
55.4 cm. / 21.8 inch
Notes

Pieter Biesiot (sculptor, furniture designer and illustrator) studied with Toon Dupuis, Pieter J.den Hertog and Johannes Ros at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague. Biesiot lived and worked from 1929 in Driebergen-Rijsenburg and was a member of the Haagse Kunstkring