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Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André

MJAP-OA-790

Ivory;gilt metal (later base and crown);pearls and turquoise (?)(later crown, probably contemporary with the base)

Height: 198mm; 265mm (with base and crown)
Width: 95mm; 142mm (with base)
Depth: 88-90mm; 128mm (with base)

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ standing on the Virgin's lap; Christ in long robe; Virgin holding a flower (?) in her right hand; Virgin trampling a winged dragon (basilisk) under her left foot; bench.

Museum's opinion 2012: France (Paris), last quarter of the 13th century (following the unpublished opinion of Elisabeth Antoine, curator at the Louvre).


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: red (inside of the veil; lining of the robe), blue (inside of the cloak); gold (patterns along the hems of the Virgin's clothes; hair of Christ and the Virgin).

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: flower held by the Virgin and Christ (only the stem remains); head of Christ (replaced).
Small hole in the veil of the Virgin to the left. Deep crack across the right shoulder of Christ separating his right arm from his body.

Comments
Metal base decorated with arches (modern). Gilt metal crown with pearls and turquoise (?)(modern).

Provenance
Certainly acquired after 1924, as this statuette was not included by Raymond Koechlin in his 1924 catalogue Les Ivoires gothiques français (while he included two other pieces from this collection).


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