Inv. 64671 (Morey A81)
Seated Virgin and Child; Virgin holding a fruit in her right hand; Christ making a blessing gesture; Christ seated on the Virgin's left knee; Christ in long robe; bench.
Koechlin 1924: France, last third of the 13th century.
Morey 1936: Italy, c. 1300.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy along the hems.
Reverse
Flat with crosshatching. Crosshatching on the bottom for gluing onto a base. Hole in the bottom.
Object Condition
Missing: upper part of the Virgin's head; left forearm of Christ.
Provenance
First mentioned by De Rossi between 1878 and 1894 (see G. B. De Rossi, Catalogo del Museo Sacro Vaticano, dictated by G. B. De Rossi, written by Mons. C. Stornajolo [Rome, after 23 October 1878 - before 20 September 1894]; Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, ms Arch. Bibl. 66a, f. 23r, no. 70).
Bibliography
G. B. De Rossi, Catalogo del Museo Sacro Vaticano, dictated by G. B. De Rossi, written by Mons. C. Stornajolo [Rome, after 23 October 1878 - before 20 September 1894]; Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, ms Arch. Bibl. 66a, f. 23r, no. 70.
R. Kanzler, Gli avori dei musei profano e sacro della Biblioteca Vaticana (Rome, 1903), no. 4, pl. IX.
A. Rossi, Les Ivories gothiques français du Vatican, Gazette des Beaux-Arts (1905), p. 398.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 99; II, no. 64.
C. R. Morey, Gli oggetti di avorio e di osso del Museo Vaticano (Vatican City, 1936), p. 76, no. A81, pl. XVIII.
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