Attribution
Unknown

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

Reverse
Flat with crosshatching at the back of the throne for attachment to a background surface.
Blue and white label with inscription: '910' and '437' (on the later wooden stand).

Object Condition
Missing: parts of the Virgin's veil and metal crown.
Once fixed onto a base.

Comments
This relief was probably intended as a centrepiece for tabernacle.

Provenance
Acquired by the Museum 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. 1374, 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. 34.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 8.