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Statuette (Back)

Statuette (Back)
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Front

Front

Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Baltimore, Walters Art Museum

Inv. 71.246

Ivory

Height: 146mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on right arm (missing); pointing gesture.


Koechlin Number: 0697

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: German (Middle Rhine, Mainz?), last quarter of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round. Hole in the center of Virgin's head.

Object Condition
Missing: Christ Child (remains were carved away in the 19th century); crown (replaced).
Small restoration of the drapery at the feet.

Provenance
Unidentified collection, Spain. Octave Homberg collection, Paris: sold, Paris, 11 May 1908, lot 491 (purchased by Gourert). Acquired by Henry Walters; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 246; II, no. 697.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 284.


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