Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: gold (trace of pattern along the hems), green (probably originally blue, lining of the Virgin's cloak), green and red, architectural details at the back of the throne, faint trace of painted figures under the arches.

Reverse
Carved in the round. Row of blind arches on the back of the throne; tracery.

Object Condition
Hole on the underside to attach to a base.
Missing: crown (probably made of a different material), head and both arms of Christ, Virgin's right forearm and hand; tip of the Virgin's shoes and figure under her foot (all later replacements) .
The base is made of a different piece of ivory. A piece on the Virgin's forehead broke and was glued back into place. Hem of the Virgin's cloak chipped in places.

Provenance
Collection of E. Laborie, Paris: his sale, 1867, lot 110 (Catalogue des objets d'art et de haute couture du Moyen Âge, de la Renaissance et des temps modernes composant la précieuse collection de M. E. Laborie (Paris, 1867), no. 110); collection of Vasiliy L'vovich Naryshkin (b. 1841, d. 1906), Saint Petersburg; donated in 1871 to the Museum of the Society for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts (Muzei OPKh); transferred to the Hermitage in 1919.

Bibliography
Collection V. Narischkin. Objets d'art (Paris, 1869), no. 172.
Ukazatel' sobraniiu khudozhestvennykh proizvedeniy, pozhalovannomu gosudarem imperatorom Muzeiu Obshchestva pooshchreniia khudozhnikov i podnesennomu gosudariu V. L. Naryshkinym (Saint Petersburg, 1871), no. 160.
D. Grigorovich, Rez'ba iz kosti, in Herald of the Fine Arts (1884), p. 253.
Katalog der Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Kunste (St Petersburg, 1904), no. 131, p. 437.
A. N. Kube, Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh. Putevoditel' po otdeleniiu srednikh vekov i epokhi Vozrozhdeniia [State Hermitage Museum. Guide to the Medieval and Renaissance sections] (Saint Petersburg, 1921), p. 10.
A. N. Kube, Reznaia kost'. Katalog [Ivory Carvings Catalogue Hermitage], (Leningrad [Saint-Petersburg], 1925), no. 67.
Zapadnoevropeiskoe prikladnoe iskusstvo XI-XX vekov iz fondov Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha, exhibition catalogue, Omsk, 1986, no. 6.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Peterburg, 2014), no. 67.