Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding.

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: right hand of the Virgin. Cracked.
Holes on either side of the head of the Virgin, probably to attach a crown. Two holes on the back of Christ's head.

Provenance
Said to have come from the ancient abbey of Aulne. Treasury of the priory of Saint-Nicolas d'Oignies; entrusted to the Soeurs de Notre-Dame in 1818; given to the Fondation Roi Baudouin, 9 June 2010; entrusted to the Société archéologique de Namur since 13 September 2010 to be exhibited at the Namur Museum.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 53; II, no. 14.
F. Courtoy, Le Trésor du prieuré d'Oignies et l'Oeuvre du frère Hugo (Bruxelles, 1953), pp. 11-112.
R. Suckale, Studien zu Stilbildung und Stilwandel der Madonnenstatuen der Ile-de-France zwischen 1230 und 1300 (Munich, 1971), pp. 72-94.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires du Moyen Age (Freiburg, 1978), no. and fig. 212.
W. Monroe, 'A French Gothic Ivory of the Virgin and Child', in The Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Studies 9 (1978), pp. 6-29 (pp. 19-20).
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), p. 198.
Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. by Peter Barnet, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 1997, p. 119.
R. Didier and J. Toussaint, Autour de Hugo d'Oignies, series Monographies du Musée provincial des Arts anciens du Namurois 25 (Namur, 2003), pp. 283, 385-389.