Inv. 98/AV
Seated Virgin and Child; bare-chested Christ; Christ standing on the Virgin's left knee; Christ holding a bird in his left hand.
Museum's opinion 2010: English or German (?), 15th century or 19th century.
Tomasi 2012: English (?), beginning of the 15th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding (hair, hems) and polychromy: red and blue (clothing).
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Right hand of the Virgin partly broken.
Christ's left arm is a later replacement.
Comments
Known between ca. 1950 and 1987 as Inv. 107.
Crosshatched base with a hole filled with wood.
Provenance
Acquired from the collection of Marcello Galli-Dunn on 16 July 1894.
Bibliography
L. Mallé, Smalti-Avori. Museo d'Arte Antica (Turin, 1969), p. 316.
M. Tomasi, 'Note su due avori gotici del Museo Civico d'Arte Antica', in Palazzo Madama. Studi e notizie, year III, no. 2 (2012-2013), pp. 16-27.
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