Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: red (Virgin's veil; flowers of the throne), green (leaves).

Reverse
Carved in the round. Back of the ivory throne decorated with flowers in high relief.

Object Condition
Missing: arms of Christ and lower part of the Virgin's robe (replaced).
Hole in the upper part of the head of the Virgin for attachment of a metal crown now missing.

Comments
Hexagonal base decorated with twelve roundels enclosing quatrefoils with tracery and champlevé enamel coming from a reliquary of saint Mary Magdalene, as is indicated by the inscription along the upper cornice: 'OV. VESEL. O. CESTE. IMAGE. TIENT. A. UNE. DENT. ET. DE. HOS. LA. BENOITE. MARIE. MAGDALEINE'.

Provenance
Collection of Prince Petr Soltykoff (b. c. 1801, d. 1889): sold, Paris, Drouot, 8-10, 15-17, 22-24, 29 April and 1 May 1861, lot 179). Carrand collection: bequeathed by Louis Carrand (d. 1888) to the Museo del Bargello in 1888.

Bibliography
U. Rossi, 'La Collezione Carrand al Museo Nazionale di Firenze', in Archivio Storico dell'Arte, II (1889), p. 17.
G. Sangiorgi, La Collection Carrand au Bargello (Rome, 1895), pl. X.
I. B. Supino, Catalogo del R. Museo Nazionale di Firenze (Rome, 1898), p. 222.
A. M. Cust, The Ivory Workers of the Middle Ages (London, 1902), p. 139.
E. Gerspach, 'La Collection Carrand', in Les Arts 32 (August 1904), p. 32.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 102; II, no. 77; III, pl. XXVII.
L. Vitali, Avori gotici francesi (Milan, 1976), p. 16, no. 2.
J. Tripps, 'Giovanni Pisano e l'influsso francese sulla scultura in Italia', in Il Gotico europeo in Italia (Naples, 1994), pp. 141-152 (fig. 13).
B. Chiesi, Catalogo degli avori gotici del Museo Nazionale del Bargello (unpublished PhD thesis - Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2011), pp. 117-123.