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Religious.

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Paris, Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge

Cl. 1954

Ivory

Height: 520mm
Width: 165mm
Depth: 145mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; Christ in long robe.


Koechlin Number: 0106

Koechlin 1924: France, end of 1st third of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: France (Paris), probably c. 1250-1260.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: right arm of the Virgin and left hand of Christ.
Very damaged. Very cracked. Must have been lying for a long time on its back on humid ground.

Provenance
Bought in 1851 from Barroux.

Bibliography
E. Du Sommerard, Catalogue et description des antiquités et objets d'art exposés au musée de Cluny, (Paris, 1883), no. 1087.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 107; II, no. 106.
La Vierge dans l'art français, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Petit-Palais, 1950, tbc.
E. Taburet, Les Ivoires du Musée Cluny (Paris, 1981), pl. 13.
Un Trésor gothique: la châsse de Nivelles, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Schnütgen museum and Paris, MNMA-Cluny, 1995-1996, no. 36.
Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. by Peter Barnet, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 1997, no. 4, pp. 122-123.
Le Musée national du Moyen Âge, Thermes de Cluny (Paris, 2003), p. 76 with ill.


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