Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; Christ in long robe; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; blessing gesture; brooch.
Rorimer 1931: France, about 1330.
Baron 1981: France (Paris), c. 1320-1330.
Museum's opinion 2012: France, c. 1320-1330.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: gold (decorative patterns along the hems; brooch; hair), the darker colour of the lining of the Virgin's cloak indicates it was painted.
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: crown and upper part of the head of the Virgin.
Base chipped. Restorations: head of the Virgin and Child's right arm (Rorimer 1931)
Provenance
Bequest of Theodore M. Davis (1837-1915) in 1915.
Bibliography
J. J. Rorimer, 'The European Decorative Arts' in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, XXVI, No. 3, Part 2: The Theodore M. Davis Bequest (March 1931), pp. 24-30 (p. 24).
J. J. Rorimer, Ultra-violet rays and their use in the examination of works of Art (New York, 1931), p. 30, fig. 20.
C. Little, 'Ivoires et art gothique', in Revue de l'art, 46 (1979), pp. 63-65, figs 18 and 19.
Les Fastes du Gothique: le siècle de Charles V, ed. by F. Baron, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1981, no. 131.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), p. 202.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 6.
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