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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Williamstown, Massachusetts, Williams College Museum of Art

78.2.4

Ivory

Height: 115mm
Width: 42mm
Depth: 29mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on right arm; Christ in long robe; Christ Child turning the pages of a book; Virgin holding an open book in her left hand; crown.

Randall 1993: Dutch, 1455-1475.
Randall 1994: North Netherlands, 1460-1475.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: gold (crown, edges of the book, Child's hair, along the hems), black (Virgin's hair, eyes, along the hems).

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Five drilled holes in base, one deep and four shallow.

Comments
The face and hair are close to that of Saint Agnes by the Master of the Utrecht Saint Martin and the Four Saints (Randall 1993).

Provenance
Collection of John Davis Hatch, Jr., Lenox (Mass.): gift of John Davis Hatch, Jr. in 1978.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 29.
R. H. Randall, 'Dutch Ivories of the Fifteenth Century', in Beelden in de late Middeleeuwen en Renaissance, ed. by R. Falkenburg et al., Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek (Zwolle, 1994), pp. 126-139 (pp. 136-138, fig. 10).


Image

© Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Photography: Jim Gipe - Pivot Media and Stephen Petegorsky.
Credit Line: 78.2.4 Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, Gift of John Davis Hatch V.

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