Seated Virgin (possibly formerly part of a Pietà scene).
Gaborit-Chopin 1978: English, early 14th century (?).
Randall 1993: German (Rhineland or Franconia), 1320-1340.
Museum files 2010: English, c. 1270.
Attribution
Unknown
Object Condition
Missing: right and left forearm of the Virgin.
Base damaged.
Areas of later fills in the transverse folds on the chest, the mantle on the left shoulder and in the seam where the head is reattached to the torso. Possible recarving.
Provenance
Bought from Mathias Komor, New York, on 12 June 1956, thanks to the Maitland F. Griggs Fund.
Bibliography
S. M. K. Crosby, 'Medieval Sculpture and Jewelry', in Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University, XXIII, 1957, nos. 1-2, pp. 11-13.
Art of the Courts of France and England from 1259-1328 ; L'Art et la cour: France et Angleterre 1259-1328, exhibition catalogue, Ottawa, Galerie nationale du Canada, 1972, no. 69, pl. 94.
D. A. Porter, Ivory Carvings in Later Medieval England 1200-1400 (unpublished PhD thesis, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1974), no. 32.
Transformations of the Court Style: Gothic art in Europe, 1270 to 1330, ed. by D. Gillerman, exhibition catalogue, Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, 1977, no. 21.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires du Moyen Age (Freiburg, 1978), no. and fig. 245.
W. D. Wixom, 'A Late Thirteenth-Century English Ivory Virgin', in Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, 50, no. 3 (1987), no. 2 A, B, C.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 9.
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