Seated Virgin and Child (Virgo lactans); Christ sitting on the Virgin's left knee; Christ playing with veil of his mother; Christ in long robe; bench.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Williamson and Davies 2014: Eastern French (?), 2nd quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Scoring on the bottom.
Provenance
Collection Claudius Côte, Lyon (in 1924). Ernest Brummer collection. Sale, Paris, 20 June 1961, lot 20. John J. Klejman, art dealer, New York. Sotheby's, New York, 1 November 1974, lot 18. Collection of James and Marilyn Alsdorf, Chicago: their sale, Sotheby's, New York, 26 January 2000, lot 42; private collection, London; Sotheby's, London, 10 July 2014, lot 17.
Note: the order of the provenance has not been verified.
Bibliography
'La Collection de M. Claudius Côte', in Les Arts 59 (March 1907), p. 31 no. 63.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 244; II, no. 687.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 10.
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