Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: right forearm and feet of the Virgin; upper part of the body of Christ.

Comments
The Virgin possibly originally held a flower in her right hand (Little 1989).

Provenance
Collection of Count Jacques de Bryas: sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, February 1905, lot 8. Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), London and New York (bought from Seligmann, 2 June 1905); Estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 236; II, no. 631; III, pl. CV.
F. Deuchler, Gothic Art (New York, 1973), p. 72, pl. 97.
Songs of Glory, exhibition catalogue, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Museum of Art, 1985, no. 78, pp. 227-228.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), pp. 182, 210.
French Art from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century, exhibition catalogue, Yokohama, Yokohama City Museum, 1989, no. 12.
Medieval Art from Late Antique through Late Gothic from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago, exhibition catalogue, Moscow, State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and Leningrad, The Hermitage, 1989-1990, no. 40.