Inv. 423
Standing Virgin and Child; Christ in long robe; Christ seated on left arm; Virgin holding a bird in her right hand; belt made of a rope; crown.
Museum's opinion 2013: France, 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding
Reverse
Flat with some scoring.
Object Condition
The top of the heads are roughly executed. Large drill holes in the base. Hole in the back.
Provenance
Collection of Friedrich Georg Hermann Culemann (b. 1811, d. 1886), Hannover (no. 448); acquired by the city of Hannover in 1887.
Bibliography
Führer durch das Kestner-Museum, Part 2: Mittelalter und Neuzeit, ed. by C. Schuchhardt (Hannover, 1904), no. 16.
F. Stuttmann, Mittelalter I: Bronze, Email, Elfenbein (Hannover, 1966), no. 130.
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