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Statuette; reliquary (Side, left)

Statuette; reliquary (Side, left)
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London, The British Museum

1851,0715.1 (Dalton 334)

Ivory

Height: 230mm

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ standing on the Virgin's left knee; Christ in long robe; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; belt; crown; bench.


Koechlin Number: 0673

Dalton 1909: French, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: French, mid 14th century.
Van Os 1996: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: French, 1325-1350.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding: red (inside the veil; Virgin's robe), green and gold (belt).

Reverse
Carved in the round. Rectangular cavity at the back of the bench for relics (now empty).

Object Condition
Missing: right forearm of the Virgin; fingers on the left hand of Christ.
Damaged crown.

Comments
A metal crown may once have covered the Virgin's ivory crown (Dalton 1909).

Provenance
Collection of C. K. Sharpe (b. 1781, d. 1851). Purchased from Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks (b. 1826, d. 1897) in 1851 by the British Museum.

Bibliography
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum, (London, 1909), no. 334, pl. LXXVI.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 242; II, no. 673.
H. van Os, Een engel in de koffer: Willem Neutelings en zijn verzameling (Baarn, 1996), p. 18, fig. 17.


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