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Venice, Museo Correr

Cl. XVII n. 2

Ivory

Height: 210mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; Christ in long robe; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; Christ making a blessing gesture with his right hand; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand.

Lazari 1859: 14th century.
Mariacher 1967: France (?),1st half of the 14th century.
Venice 1988: France (?), 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: France (?), 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding (hems) and polychromy.

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: crown and upper part of the Virgin's head.

Provenance
Collection of Teodoro Correr, Venice (at least from c. 1800; manuscript inventory evidence): given by him in 1830.

Bibliography
V. Lazari, Notizia delle opere d'arte e d'antichità della Raccolta Correr di Venezia (Venice, 1859), no. 728.
Elenco degli oggetti esposti. Museo Civico e Raccolta Correr Venezia (Venice, 1899), p. 212, pl. XIII, no. 566.
G. Mariacher, Arte a Venezia dal medioevo al Settecento. Testimonianze e recuperi, exhibition catalogue, Venice, Museo Correr, 1971, p. 266, fig. 129. tbc
G. Mariacher, 'Gli avori del Museo Correr di Venezia', in Rassegna dell'Istruzione artistica', II-4 (1967), pp. 33-48 (pp. 35-37, and 48, n. 10).
Una Città e il suo museo. Un secolo e mezzo di collezioni civiche veneziane, ed. by G. Romanelli, exhibition catalogue, Venice, Museo Correr, 1988, pp. 80-81, no. I.127.


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