Inv. MA 2009
Seated Virgin and Child; Christ standing on the Virgin's left knee; Christ holding a bird; Virgin holding a stem of flowers (?), in her right hand; brooch; bench.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of 14th century.
Berliner 1926: France, 2nd half 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2014: Middle Rhineland, last third of the 14th century.
Attribution
Atelier of the Kremsmünster Diptych (Koechlin 1924)
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: head of Christ; fingers on the right hand of Christ; crown of the Virgin (probably originally metal); sceptre or stem of flowers held by the Virgin; ivory wedge at the base to make the statuette stand upright.
Provenance
Acquired before 1896.
Bibliography
Das Mittelalter. II, Gotische Alterthümer der Baukunst und Bildnerei, by H. Graf, G. Hager and J. A. Mayer (Munich, 1896), VI, no. 1376, pl. VIII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 301, II, no. 843.
R. Berliner, Die Bildwerke des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums, IV. Die Bildwerke in Elfenbein, Knochen, Hirsch- und Steinbockhorn, mit einem Anhange: Elfenbeinarbeiten der Staatlichen Schlossmuseen in Bayern (Augsburg, 1926), no. 31.
P. Beguerie, 'La Vierge à l'Enfant de l'Atelier du Diptyque de Kremsmünster', in Société Schongauer, Bulletin 1987-1992 (1993), pp. 91-97 (fig. 7).
Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. by P. Barnet, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 1997, p. 93.
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