Seated Virgin and Child; Virgin holding a fruit in her left hand; Christ seated on the Virgin's right knee; Christ in long robe; blessing gesture; crown.
Williamson and Davies 2014: French (probably Paris), c. 1300-1320.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
The surface seems to have been stripped and parts of it are now covered in a white film, possibly a water-based paint.
The crown is probably a modern replacement.
Comments
Hole in the underside.
Provenance
Collection of Canon Lewis Gilbertson, Rector of St Martin's Church, Ludgate Hill, London, by 1923; bequeathed to the museum 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. 95.
M. Longhurst, 'Some war-time additions to the ivory collections at South Kensington', in Burlington Magazine 79 (1941), pp. 22-25.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 5.
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