Seated Virgin and Child; bare-chested Christ; Christ seated on the Virgin's left knee.
Randall 1993: French or English (?), c. 1300.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: head of the Virgin and of Christ; left forearm of Christ; right forearm of the Virgin (replaced).
Left foot of the Virgin partly broken.
An ivory pin in the neck of the Virgin and a hole in the neck of Christ indicate that the heads were once replaced.
Provenance
Bought from Leopold Blumka, New York, in 1947 thanks to the Caroline G. Mather Fund.
Bibliography
E. T. DeWald, 'An Ivory Madonna and Child', in Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, 8, no. 2 (1949), pp. 4-5.
A. St. Clair, E. Parker McLachlan, The Carver's Art: Medieval Sculpture in Ivory, Bone, and Horn, exhibition catalogue, New Brunswick, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, 1989, no. 75.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 6.
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