Seated Virgin and Child; Christ seated on the Virgin's left knee; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; crown; bench.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2012: German, c. 1350-1375.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy.
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Right forearm of the Virgin cracked.
Provenance
Collection of Georges Hoentschel (b. 1855, d. 1915), Paris: sold 1911; collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), New York and London; estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.
Bibliography
A. Pératé, Collections Georges Hoentschel. Ivoires, orfèvrerie religieuse, pierres (Paris, 1911), no. 25, pl. XXI.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 244; II, no. 691; III, pl. CXI.
Medieval Art in America: Patterns of Collecting, 1800-1940, exhibition catalogue, Penn State University, The Palmer Museum of Art, 9 January-3 March 1996 and Pittsburgh, The Frick Art Museum, 1 April-26 May 1996, no. 34 (R. Aaron Rottner), pp. 9 and 150.
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