Inv. 1958 (almost completely destroyed)
Seated Virgin and Child; Christ seated on the Virgin's left knee; Christ in long robe; Virgin holding a fruit in her right hand; Christ making a blessing gesture with his right hand.
Vöge 1900: Northern Germany (Saxony?), 13th century.
Volbach 1923: Germany, 1st half of the 13th century.
Dokumentation 2006: Germany, 1st half of the 13th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: red.
Object Condition
Prior to WWII
Base and lower part of the piece partly missing.
Today
Almost completely destroyed during WWII; one very small fragment has survived.
Provenance
Falcke collection, London; acquired by the Museum in London in 1892; undocumented after 7 April 1945; one very small fragment brought to Wiesbaden in 1946; returned to Berlin-Dahlem in 1958.
Bibliography
W. Vöge, Die Königlichen Museen zu Berlin. Beschreibung der Bildwerke der christlichen Epochen. Zweite Auflage. Elfenbeinwerke (Berlin, 1900), no. 120.
A. Goldschmidt, Die Elfenbeinskulpturen, 4 vols (Berlin, 1914-1926), III, no. 135, pl. 47.
W. F. Volbach, Die Bildwerke des Deutschen Museums, Die Elfenbeinbildwerke (Berlin, 1923), p. 50, pl. 42.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 49 n. 4, 99 n. 1; III, no. 5A.
Dokumentation der Verluste. Skulpturensammlung, VII: Skulpturen, Möbel (Berlin, 2006), p. 242.
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