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Statuette (Side)

Statuette (Side)
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Front

Front

Front

Side

Back

Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Narbonne, Musée d'art et d'histoire

S/n

Ivory

Height: 195mm

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ in long robe; Christ seated on the Virgin's left knee; crown; throne decorated with pinnacles and an arch; base decorated with a band of tracery (quatrefoils).


Koechlin Number: 0688

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round but lower relief on the back. Cavity at the back of the throne.
Labels with inscriptions: '636', '1228', 'Exposition retrospective de 1900/229/Narbonne'.

Object Condition
Missing: right forearm of the Virgin; left hand of Christ (replaced).

Provenance
Unknown provenance.

Bibliography
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 86.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 244; II, no. 688; III, pl. CXI.


Image

© Laurie Biral, Mairie de Narbonne.

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