Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy (probably 19th century): red (inside of the Virgin's veil; lining of clothes).

Reverse
Curved. Scoring. Modern inscriptions; Soprintendenza label with inscription '4943'.

Object Condition
The Virgin's nose is chipped.

Provenance
Collection of cardinal Stefano Borgia (d. 1815); part of the collections of the Real Museo Borbonico which, in 1860, became the Museo Nazionale; transferred in 1957 to the Museo di Capodimonte.

Bibliography
F. Verde and G. Pagano, 'Guide pour le Musée royal Bourbon (Naples, 1832), II, p. 61, no. 1074.
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), Appendix, p. 371, no. 1209.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 261; II, no. 732.
A. O. Quintavalle, 'Medioevo ignorato. Avori gotici nelle pubbliche collezioni napoletane', in Crisopoli (1934), pp. 292-293, fig. 14.
L. Vitali, Avori gotici francesi, exhibition catalogue, Milan, Museo Poldi-Pezzoli, 1976, no. 35.
Medioevo e produzione artistica di serie. Smalti di Limoges e avori gotici in Campania, ed. by P. Giusti, P. Leone de Castris, exhibition catalogue, Naples, Museo Duca di Martina, 1981, p. 104, no. II.6.
V. Tiberia, Il Museo sacro del Cardinal Borgia a Capodimonte (Naples, 1982), p. 168.