Cl. 7613
Seated Virgin and Child; Christ standing on the Virgin's left knee; Christ in long robe; belt.
Koechlin 1924: France, end of 13th century or beginning of 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: France, c. 1300.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Polychromy and gilding: patterns on the traces on the cloak of the Virgin (crosses and stars), belt, etc.
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: right forearm of the Virgin; head, right and left forearm of Christ Child.
Provenance
Bought by the Museum from Beurdeley on 20 December 1862.
Bibliography
E. Du Sommerard, Catalogue et description des antiquités et objets d'art exposés au musée de Cluny (Paris, 1883), no. 1061.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 102; II, no. 81.
Un Trésor gothique: la châsse de Nivelles, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Schnütgen museum and Paris, MNMA-Cluny, 1995-1996, no. 46.
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