Seated Virgin and Child; Christ seated on the Virgin's left knee; Christ in long robe; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; Virgin holding a bird in her right hand; bench.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round but lower relief on the back.
Object Condition
Missing: crown.
Stained dark brown.
Comments
The upper part of the Virgin's head is recessed, probably to receive a crown (now missing).
Provenance
Collection of Georges Hoentschel (b. 1855, d. 1915), Paris; J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), London and New York; estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.
Bibliography
A. Pératé, Collections Georges Hoentschel. Ivoires, orfèvrerie religieuse, pierres (Paris, 1911), I, no. 1, pl. XVIII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 102; II, no. 82.
Songs of Glory, exhibition catalogue, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Museum of Art, 1985, no. 77, pp. 225-226.
W. D. Wixom, 'A Late Thirteenth-Century English Ivory Virgin', in Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, 50, no. 3 (1987), p. 347.
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