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Saint Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum

Inv. F 789

Ivory;bronze (later frame)

Height: 131 mm (frame)
Width: 27 mm (ivory only)
Depth: 20 mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; Christ in long robe.

Kryzhanovskaya 2014: France, 2nd half of the 13th century (ivory) and Russia, mid 19th century (frame).


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: red.

Reverse
Hidden by the frame.

Object Condition
Missing: upper part of the Virgin's head; Virgin's right forearm; upper part of Virigin's head cut to place the crown that is missing; Christ's head and left hand.

Provenance
Collection of Dmitry Pavlovich Tatischchev (b. 1767; d. 1845), Saint Petersburg; his bequest to the Museum in 1846 (documented as part of the Treasure Gallery of the Winter Palace: Arkhiv GE, F. 1, Op. 2, D. 74, Inventar' Galerei Dragotsennostei, (Saint Petersburg, 1846), pl. 197).

Bibliography
Rzemioslo artystyczne zachodniej europy od XI do XVI wieku, ze zbiorów panstwowego ermitazu w Sank Petersburgu [Western European artistic handicrafts from the eleventh to the sixteenth centuries], exhibition catalogue, Malbork, The Malbork Castle Museum, 1994, no. 31, fig. 20.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Peterburg, 2014), no. 64.


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