Seated Virgin and Child (Virgo lactans); Christ in long robe; Christ seated on the Virgin's left knee; crown; bench.
Randall 1993 and Museum's opinion 2010: French (Lorraine?), 2nd quarter of the 14th century.
Williamson and Davies 2014: Eastern French (?), 2nd quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Ivory cracked.
Provenance
Mathias Komor, New York: sold in 1956 by Komor to Mrs. Albert Hale, Dedham, MA; 1964, gift of Mrs. Albert Hale to the Museum of Fine Arts.
Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 14.
M. H. Caviness, Visualising Women in the Middle Ages: Sight, Spectacle, and Scopic Economy (Philadelphia, 2001), p. tbc
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 10.
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