Gothic Ivories Project

Statuette

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

Lost or destroyed

Ivory

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ standing on the Virgin's left knee; Virgin holding a book.

Koechlin Number: 0683

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy (in 1924).

Provenance
Collection of the Grand Dukes of Hesse, Darmstadt (in 1924). Possibly lost or destroyed during WWII.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 244; II, no. 683.

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