Seated Virgin and Child; Christ seated on the Virgin's left knee; Christ in long robe; Virgin holding Christ's foot in her right hand; Christ touching with his right hand the Virgin's chin.
Museum's opinion 2011: France (Paris), c. 1250-1275.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of original polychromy and gilding: gold (along the hems; hair; patterns on the crown).
Reverse
Carved in the round. Back of the bench roughly carved.
Object Condition
Right hand of the Virgin broken.
Provenance
Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), London and New York: estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917; gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.
Bibliography
C. Blair and M. Campbell, Louis Marcy: Oggetti d'arte della Galleria Parmeggiani di Reggio Emilia (Turin, 2008), p. 142.
C. T. Little , ‘The Art of Gothic Ivories: Studies at the Crossroads,’ in The Sculpture Journal 23.1 (2014), pp. 13-29, fig. 4-6.
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