Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire - Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst und Geschiedenis (Musée du Cinquantenaire)
Inv. 3139
Ivory;silver (later crown).
Seated Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; Christ in long robe; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand (replaced).
Molinier 1890: France, end of 13th century or beginning of 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, early 14th century.
Brussels 1964: France, 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: left arm of Christ (later replacement); right forearm and hand of the Virgin holding a flower (later replacement).
The head of Christ may also be a later replacement.
Comments
The statuette is made of two pieces of ivory. In the lower piece are carved the feet of the Virgin, the bottom of her robe, and the lower part of the bench.
Provenance
Collection of Eugen Felix, Cologne: sale, Cologne, 25 October 1886, lot 303. Frédéric Spitzer collection, Paris: his sale, Chevallier and Mannheim, Paris, 17 April 1893, lot 81; bought by the Museum.
Bibliography
E. Molinier, La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1890), I, no. 46.
J. Destrée, Catalogue des ivoires, des objets en nacre en os gravé et en cire peinte (Brussels, 1902), no. 15.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 104; II, no. 93.
La Mère et l'enfant dans l'art religieux, exhibition catalogue, Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, 1960, no. 56.
A. Jansen, Christelijke Kunst tot het einde der Middeleeuwen - Art chrétien jusqu'à la fin du Moyen Age, exhibition catalogue, Brussels, Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis-Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, 1964, no. 226, pl. CII, fig. 224.
KIK/IRPA database: http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/wwwopac/en/object.html [accessed October 2009].
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