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Subject
Religious.

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Paris, Musée du Louvre

MRR 304

Ivory

Height: 220mm
Width: 115mm
Depth: 54mm

Seated Virgin and Child (Virgo lactans); Christ seated on right arm; bare-chested Christ; Christ holding a fruit in his right hand; ivory throne with Gothic tracery.


Koechlin Number: 0708

Koechlin 1924: Franco-Flemish, end of 14th century or beginning of 15th century.
Leeuwenberg 1969: France (?), late 18th century or early 19th century.
Gaborit-Chopin and Museum's opinion 2010: 19th century (before 1828), close to Musée du Moyen Age, Cl. 1106.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy along the hems.

Object Condition
A few repairs in the seat.

Provenance
Pierre Révoil collection, Lyon (no. 304); acquired in 1828 by the Musée du Louvre.

Bibliography
M. de Laborde, Notice des émaux, bijoux et objets divers exposés dans les galeries du musée du Louvre (Paris, 1857), no. 866.
E. Molinier, Histoire générale des Arts appliqués à l'Industrie. I: Les Ivoires (Paris, 1896), p. 180.
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires, (Paris, 1896), no. 114.
G. F. Kunz, Ivory and the Elephant (New York, 1916), p. 60.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 247, 249, 251, 257; II, no. 708; III, pl. CXIV.
L. Grodecki, Ivoires français (Paris, 1947), p. 103.
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter, 39 (1969), pp. 111-148 (p. 121, fig. 20).
Le Gothique retrouvé, avant Viollet-le-Duc, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Hôtel de Sully, 1979-1980, no. 220.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 288.


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