Inv. 71.153
Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on right arm; Virgin holding a flower in her left hand; Christ in long robe.
Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: Germany (Middle Rhine), 2nd quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding: hair, gilt line across the base.
Reverse
Carved from a thin curved piece of ivory.Backed with a fill of hard wood (chestnut) to stabilise the figure.
Object Condition
Missing: crown; upper part of the Virgin's head (top of her head is cross-hatched to receive an ivory crown).
The head of Christ was broken but put back into place.
Old Walters files: cleaned in 1938 and crown removed.
Provenance
Marcus Antocolsky collection, Paris: sold, Paris, 10 June 1901, lot 72 (with ill.) to Henry Walters through P. Chevallier; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Bibliography
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 273.
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