Seated Virgin and Child; Christ standing on the Virgin's left knee; two angels crowning the Virgin; angels standing on the sides of the bench.
Williamson and Davies 2014: French (probably Paris), middle of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on either side.
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy (inside the Virgin's veil).
Reverse
Smooth. Longer edges slightly chamfered.
Object Condition
Missing: top of the gable and crockets. Cracked. Large hole in the upper part for hanging.
Underside crosshatched with two holes for attachment to a base.
Worn.
Right wrist of the angel on the left chipped.
Provenance
Collection of Lord Carmichael of Skirling, London, by 1923: Carmichael sale, Sotheby & Co., London, 8-10 June 1926, lot 452. Collection of Canon Lewis Gilbertson, Rector of Saint Martin's Church, Ludgate Hill, London; bequeathed by Mrs Gilbertson (d. 1940) in memory of her husband in 1940.
Bibliography
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory, exhibition catalogue, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1923, no. 123.
M. Longhurst, 'Some war-time additions to the ivory collections at South Kensington', Burlington Magazine, no. 79, 1941, p.25.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 62.
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