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Paris, Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge

Cl. 11155

Ivory;wood (later throne-shaped base)

Height: 152mm
Width: 100mm
Depth: 70mm

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ standing on the Virgin's left knee; Christ in long robe; brooch.

Koechlin Number: 0080

Koechlin 1924: France, end of 13th or early 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: France (Paris), c. 1300 or 1260-1270(?).

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: right forearm of the Virgin, head and left arm of Christ Child.

Comments
Hole possibly for a relic at the bottom of the Virgin's bust.

Provenance
Bought from R. de Nolivos on 2 June 1885.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 102; II, no. 80.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires du Moyen Age (Freiburg, 1978), p. 143.
S. Guérin, 'An ivory Virgin at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, in a Gothic sculptor's oeuvre', in The Burlington Magazine 1311, Vol. CLIV (June 2012), pp. 394-402 (p. 395 footnote).

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