Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Ivory sculpture with traces of polychrome base made of hippopotamus ivory Indo-Portuguese 18th C. (3rd quarter) minor faults on the reliefs Dimensões (altura x comprimento x largura) - (total) 20,4 cm; Peso - (total) 389 g. Notes: a) This lot is subject to CITES export/import restrictions and is duly certified: No. 26PTLX00075C; b) Currently, the import of goods incorporating materials from protected wild fauna and flora species, including, among others, ivory, coral and tortoiseshell, is prohibited by several countries; c) In Portugal, in accordance with the planned transposition into national legislation of the most recent EU guidelines on the ivory trade, the issuance of re-export certificates to countries outside the EU is suspended; d) In this context, potential buyers are advised to inform themselves beforehand about the legislation of their country and applicable international restrictions. See similar examples in the catalogue of the exhibition "A Expansão Portuguesa e a Arte do Marfim". Lisbon: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 1991, pp. 58-59 and 109, Nos. 90, 91, 95 and 97