Inv. F 3225
Seated Virgin and Child; Christ seated on the Virgin's left knee; Christ in long robe; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; Christ originally holding a bird (lost); crown; brooch.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Erbach 1993: Germany, end of the 14th - beginning of the 15th century.
Kryzhanovskaya 2014: Germany, mid 14th century.
Attribution
Atelier of the Kremsmünster Diptych (Koechlin 1924)
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy (red).
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Back of the bench carved with one blind arch on either side of a medallion enclosing a pierced trefoil.
Object Condition
Missing: right hand of the Virgin; bird in Christ's right hand (remains of its tail on the Virgin's right arm); right hand of Christ.
Crown and edges of theVirgin's cloak chipped. Vertical cracks.
Provenance
Acquired in 1886 in Vienna by the Stieglitz Museum of Applied Arts; transferred to the Hermitage in 1926.
Bibliography
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Peterburg, 2014), no. 118.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 301; II, no. 842.
Zachodnioeuropejska rzezba z kosci w latach 1100-1290 ze zbiorow Panstwowego Ermitazu v Leningradzie, exhibition catalogue, Warsaw, The National Museum, 1981, no. 24.
P. Beguerie, 'La Vierge à l'Enfant de l'Atelier du Diptyque de Kremsmünster', in Société Schongauer, Bulletin 1987-1992 (1993), pp. 91-97 (fig. 8).
Christliche westeuropäische Elfenbeinkunst 13.-18. Jahrhundert aus der Eremitage Sankt Petersburg, exhibition catalogue, Erbach, Deutschen Elfenbeinmuseum, 6 April 1993 -6 January 1994, no. 11.
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