Standing Virgin and Child; Christ in long robe; Christ seated on left arm; Virgin holding a bird in her right hand; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand.
London 1967: French, mid 14th century.
Catalogue 1979: French, mid 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: French or Netherlandish, early 14th century.
Lowden 2013: North French, c. 1325-1350.
Attribution
Attributed to 'MONVAERNI' (active c. 1470-1500). (London 1967) tbc
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding (hair and crown).
Reverse
Uncarved. Scored in the lower part and on the base. Large no. '2' inscribed in black.
Object Condition
Missing: part of the Virgin's right hand.
The relief probably formed the central part of a tabernacle: signs of the statuette having been broken out of its setting.
Broken in the lower part.
Provenance
Thomas Gambier Parry, Highnam Court (Gloucestershire)(d. 1888): bought before 1861 (recorded in 1861); Sir Hubert Parry (d. 1918), his eldest son (from 1888); Ernest Gambier-Parry (d. 1936), half-brother of Hubert (from 1918); Mark Gambier-Parry (d. 1966), youngest son of Ernest (from 1936); bequeathed to the Courtauld Institute Galleries in 1966.
Bibliography
National Exhibition of Works of Art at Leeds, exhibition catalogue, Leeds, 1868, no. 688.
The Gambier-Parry Collection. Provisional Catalogue (London, 1967), no. 12.
General Catalogue of the Courtauld Institute Galleries (1979), no. 13.
J. Lowden, Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery (London, 2013), no. 6, pp. 58-61.
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