Seated Virgin and Child; Christ in long robe; Christ walking in the Virgin's lap; bench; crown.
Paris 1950: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Maurice 1983 and Museum's opinion 2011: France (Paris), c. 1340-1350.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: red (veil), green (at the foot of the Virgin).
Reverse
Carved in the round. Modern labels.
Object Condition
Cracks.
Provenance
Collection of Anthelme and Edma Trimolet: Trimolet bequest, 1878.
Bibliography
E. Gleize, Catalogue descriptif des objets d'art formant le musée Anthelme et Edma Trimolet (Dijon, 1883), no. 332.
L. Grodecki, Ivoires français (Paris, 1947), pp. 99-100, pl. XXXVI.
La Vierge dans l'art français, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Petit-Palais, 1950, no. 248.
Tardy, Les Ivoires (Paris, 1966), p. 60.
B. Maurice, Quelques recherches sur les ivoires du musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, unpublished Mémoire de maîtrise de l'Université de Dijon, 1983, no. 9.
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