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Subject
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Cracow, Wawel Royal Castle

Inv. dep. 681

Ivory;wood (later base)

Height: 218mm
Width: 78mm
Depth: 36mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; bare-chested Christ; Christ holding a book in his right hand; crown.

Pagaczewski 1897: probably France, end of the 14th or beginning of the 15th century
Katalog Zabytków 1978: Paris/Amiens, c. 1360-1370
Gaborit-Chopin 2004: probably South Germany, end of the 14th century, style of the Kremsmünster Master


Attribution
Style of the Kremsmünster Master (Gaborit-Chopin 2004)

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: red (drapery of the Virgin's dress).

Reverse
Carved in the round but lower relief on the back.

Object Condition
The Virgin formerly wore a later metal crown. Missing: parts of three fingers of Virgin's right hand; object (probably stem of flowers) in the Virgin's right hand; Christ's left hand, head and neck. Two holes at the back of the Virgin's veil. Damaged along the right side at the back. Three holes in maphorion. Dark stains on the reverse.

Provenance
On loan since 1995 to the Wawel Royal Castle from the Convent of the Reformed Franciscans in Cracow.

Bibliography
Sprawozdania Komisji do Badania Historii Sztuki w Polsce, VI (1897), pp. CXIX-CXXI (J. Pagaczewski), fig. 16.
Katalog Zabytków Sztuki w Polsce, IV: Miasto Kraków, 3: Kościoły i klasztory Śródmieścia, 2, ed. A. Bochnak, J. Samek (Warsaw, 1978), p. 11, figs. 638, 640.
J. Pasiecznik, Kościół i klasztor Reformatów w Krakowie, Biblioteka Krakowska, 119 (Cracow, 1978), pp. 121-123, fig. 36.
Artystyczne wyroby z kości słoniowej w zbiorach polskich, ed. by A. R. Chodyński, exhibition catalogue, Malbork, Muzeum Zamkowe w Malborku, 1989, p. 29, no. 12, fig. 2.
J. T. Nowak, W. Turdza, Skarby krakowskich klasztorów, Muzeum Historyczne Miasta Krakowa (Cracow, 2000), pp. 175, 179, 194, fig. 181.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, 'Réapparition d'une Vierge d'ivoire gothique', in Objets d'art. Mélanges en l'honneur de Daniel Alcouffe (Dijon, 2004), pp. 49, 52-53, 55 (n. 10), figs. 7-8.


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