Seated Virgin and Child (missing Christ); bench.
Museum's opinion 2011: French, c. 1300.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Formerly fully stained green.
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: hands and feet of the Virgin; figure of Christ, on the left knee of the Virgin.
Provenance
Collection of Georges Hoentschel (b. 1855, d. 1915), Paris. Collection of 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. 24, pl. XXI.
French Art from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century, exhibition catalogue, Yokohama, Yokohama City Museum, 1989, no. 13.
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