Inv. MA 2022
Standing Virgin and Child; Virgin holding a bird in her right hand; Christ in long robe; Christ seated on left arm; crown.
Koechlin 1924: Germany (Rhineland; Cologne) or France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Berliner 1926: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2013: France, 2nd half 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: left hand of Christ (later replacement).
Crown chipped.
Comments
The wooden base covered in ivory panels is not original.
Provenance
Acquired by the Museum before 1867.
Bibliography
Das Bayerische Nationalmuseum (Munich, 1868), p. 73.
Das Mittelalter. II, Gotische Alterthümer der Baukunst und Bildnerei, by H. Graf, G. Hager and J. A. Mayer (Munich, 1896), VI, no. 1389, pl. VIII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 240, 257; II, no. 659; III, pl. CVIII.
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. 30.
J. Thinesse, Appendix zum Elfenbeinkatalog Rudolf Berliners, unpublished MA dissertation, Munich, 1977 (Typescript), pp. 25-26.
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