Inv. dep. 681
		      
                    
		     
                      
		      
                      
		      
                      
		      
                    
		    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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