Inv. F 1210
Standing Virgin and Child; Virgin holding a fruit; crown; Christ seated on left arm; Christ in long robe; Christ holding a fruit; Child pulling the front of the Virgin's veil; female veiled figure kneeling in donor position.
Erbach 1993: Italy?, end of the 13th century/beginning of the 14th century.
Kryzhanovskaya 2014: Italian, 1st quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Cracks.
Hole in the underside to attach it to a base. Damage to the Virgin's feet.
Provenance
Collection of Stepan Nikolaevich Mitusov (b. 1847; d. 1922 (?)), Saint Petersburg: his sale, 1897, lot 166 (Katalog kollektsii predmetov iz slonovoi kosti S. N. Mitusova (Saint Petersburg, 1897), no. 166); collection of the Museum of the Society for the Encouragement of the Fine Artas (Muzei OPKh), Saint Petersburg; acquired by the Hermitage in 1933.
Bibliography
Christliche westeuropäische Elfenbeinkunst 13.-18. Jahrhundert aus der Eremitage Sankt Petersburg, exhibition catalogue, 6 April 1993 - 6 January 1994, no. 4.
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, p. 9 fig. 5.
M. Y. Kryzhanovskaya, Ein gotisches Elfenbeinrelief in Darmstadt und das Problem der Lokalisierung, in Kunstin Hessen und am Mittelrhein, 34 (1994), pp. 9-10.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Peterburg, 2014), no. 151.
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