Standing Virgin and Child; Virgin holding a stem of flowers in her right hand; Christ making a blessing gesture with his right hand; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand.
Koechlin 1924: French, end of 1st third of 14th century.
Princeton 1986: French, 2nd quarter of 14th century.
Randall 1993: French (Paris), last quarter of 13th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Missing ring hinges ('round hinge hole shows that the hinges were of wire', according to Randall 1993).
Object Condition
Missing: upper part of the gable, pinnacles and lower part of the piece; parts of the Virgin's crown.
Comments
Was attached onto a wooden backing when Koechlin described it.
Provenance
Collection of Count Max de Germiny, Paris. Bought thanks to the John Maclean Magie and Gertrude Magie Fund in 1953.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 124; II, no. 126; III, pl. XXXV.
Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, XIII, no. 2 (1954), p. 63.
Selections from the Art Museum Princeton University (Princeton, 1986), p. 61.
A. St. Clair, E. Parker McLachlan, The Carver's Art: Medieval Sculpture in Ivory, Bone, and Horn, exhibition catalogue, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, 1989, no. 12.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 38.
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