Standing Virgin and Child; bare-chested Christ; Christ seated on left arm; Virgin holding a flower.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: arms of Christ.
Provenance
Possibly from the collection of Jean-Baptiste Coffinet. Collection of Michel Boy, Paris (by 1900).
Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 737 ('58.42) (?), and pp. 260, 422.
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 90.
Volbach, 'Zwei Schwäbische Plastiken des XIV. Jahrhunderts', in Amtliche Berichte aus den Preussischen Staatsammlungen (October 1918), p. 9 (mistakenly said to be part of the Martin Le Roy collection).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 113, 241, 246; II, no. 666.
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