Gothic Ivories Project | Relief (appliqué) (Back)

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ in long robe; Christ standing on the Virgin's right knee; Christ holding an apple in his right hand; crown; bench.

Berliner 1926: France, 2nd quarter of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2013: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Faint traces of gilding and polychromy: red (the Virgin's gown), gold (Christ's and the Virgin's hair).

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Crosshatching in the lower part.

Object Condition
Missing: a piece of the Virgin's crown.
Two dowel holes between the Virgin and Christ. One large hole at the back of the Virgin (only visible from the back).

Comments
Carved in high-relief, the Virgin's lower arm is carved in the round.

Provenance
Acquired before 1861.

Bibliography
W. Weingärtner, 'Die Kunstdenkmale der altchristlichen und romanischen Periode im königlichen bayerischen Nationalmuseum zu München', in Mitteilungen der k. k. Central-Commission zur Erforschung und Erhaltung der Baudenkmale 6 (1861), pp. 109-115 (p. 114).
Das Mittelalter. II, Gotische Alterthümer der Baukunst und Bildnerei, by H. Graf, G. Hager and J. A. Mayer (Munich, 1896), VI, no. 1366, pl. XXVII.
R. Berliner, Die Bildwerke des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums, IV. Die Bildwerke in Elfenbein, Knochen, Hirsch- und Steinbockhorn, mit einem Anhange: Elfenbeinarbeiten der Staatlichen Schlossmuseen in Bayern (Augsburg, 1926), no. 35.

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