Inv. 422
Seated Virgin and Child; Virgin holding Christ with both hands; Christ standing on the Virgin's left knee; Christ in a long robe; bench.
Koechlin 1924: French, mid 14th century.
Stuttmann 1966 and Museum's opinion 2013: French, mid 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: red (Virgin's veil).
Reverse
Carved in the round but lower relief on the back.
Object Condition
Missing: fingers on Christ's right hand. Drill hole at the bottom of the base.
Comments
The Virgin must have worn a metal crown at some point.
Provenance
Collection of Friedrich Georg Hermann Culemann (b. 1811, d. 1886), Hannover; acquired by the city of Hannover in 1887.
Bibliography
Führer durch das Kestner-Museum, Part 2: Mittelalter und Neuzeit, ed. by C. Schuchhardt (Hannover, 1904), no. 15.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 242; II, no. 669.
F. Stuttmann, Mittelalter I : Bronze, Email, Elfenbein (Hannover, 1966), no. 127, fig. on p. 195.
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