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Statuette (Detail)

Statuette (Detail)
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Detail

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Subject
Religious.

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Frankfurt am Main, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung

Inv. 1034

Ivory

Height: 100mm (with base)
Width: 38mm
Depth: 22mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Virgin as the Apocalyptic woman; Christ seated on the Virgin's right arm; naked Christ; open book with clasps; crescent moon with a face; two seated angels holding the moon; two angels possibly originally placing a crown on the Virgin's head; brooch.

Legner 1960 and 1967: Netherlands or South West Germany, 1430-1440.
Schenkluhn 1987 and Museum's opinion 2012: Southern Netherlands, c. 1430-1440.
Rotterdam 2012: Southern Netherlands, c. 1430-1440.
Williamson and Davies 2014: South Netherlandish, c. 1440-1450.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round but lower relief on the back.
Hole at the back of the base and hole in the lower part of the statuette at the back. Inscription: monogram 'AD' and '1508.'

Object Condition
Missing: wings of the upper angels and one of their hands.
The base is made of a different piece of ivory.

Provenance
Acquired from Dr. Plambeck in 1937/1938.

Bibliography
A. Legner, Kleinplastik aus dem Liebieghaus (Frankfurt am Main, 1960), no. 26.
Europäische Kunst um 1400 : achte Ausstellung unter den Auspizien des Europarates, exhibition catalogue, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, 7 May - 31 July 1962, p. 369.
A. Legner, Gotische Bildwerke aus dem Liebieghaus (Frankfurt am Main, 1967), no. 9.
Kunst um 1400 am Mittelrhein - Ein Teil der Wirklichkeit, exhibition catalogue, Frankfurt am Main, Liebieghaus Museum alter Plastik, 10 December 1975 - 15 February 1976, p. 116, no. 6, fig. 94.
I musei di Francoforte si presentano / Frankfurter Museen stellen sich vor, exhibition catalogue, Milan, Palazzo Reale Castello Sforzesco, 11 - 20 May 1979, p. 23, no. 2.12 with illustration.
Dürers Verwandlung in der Skulptur zwischen Renaissance und Barock, exhibition catalogue, Frankfurt am Main, Liebieghaus Museum Alter Plastik, 1 November 1981 - 17 January 1982, no. 115.
W. Schenkluhn, Liebieghaus - Museum Alter Plastik. Nachantike Kleinplastische Bildwerke, vol. I: Mittelalter. 11. Jahrhundert bis 1530/40 (Melsungen, 1987), no. 10, pp. 30-32.
S. Kemperdick, F. Lammertse, The Road to Van Eyck, exhibition catalogue, Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, 2012, no. 51, pp. 222-223 (F. Scholten).
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 16.


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