Inv. 88 C
Seated Virgin and Child; Christ seated on the Virgin's left knee; Virgin holding a fruit in her right hand; Christ in long robe; Virgin trampling a monster under her left foot (basilisk); birds decorating the armrests of the throne.
Back and sides of the throne decorated with arches supported by colonnettes; tracery: medallions enclosing a trefoil; quatrefoils in the spandrels.
Foliated decoration including palmettes. Lion attacking a bull.
Koechlin 1924: France, 3rd quarter of 13th century.
Museum's opinion 2012: France, 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: architectural details; red (Virgin's clothes).
Reverse
Carved in the round. Back and sides of the throne decorated with arches supported by colonnettes; tracery: medallions enclosing a trefoil; quatrefoils in the spandrels. Foliated decoration including palmettes. Lion attacking a bull.
Object Condition
Missing: crown of the Virgin; the upper part of one of the column at the back of the throne.Hole above the head of the Virgin (to attach a metal crown now missing).
Hole on the base (perhaps to link the statuette to a base through a pivot).
Provenance
Carrand collection: bequeathed by Louis Carrand (d. 1888) to the Museo del Bargello in 1888.
Bibliography
G. Sangiorgi, La Collection Carrand au Bargello (Rome, 1895), pl. 24.
I. B. Supino, Catalogo del R. Museo Nazionale di Firenze (Rome, 1898), p. 223, no. 88.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 63; II, no. 25.
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