Inv. 71.74
Seated Virgin and Child; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; Christ standing on the Virgin's left knee; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; bench.
Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: France, 3rd quarter of the 13th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy (old but not original). Modern pigment applied to conceal repairs to head of Child and to flower.
Reverse
Uncarved. Back slighthly carved, showing the bark of the exterior of the tusk.
Object Condition
Missing: left end of throne, upper part of the Virgin's head; metal crown.
Large pin-hole has been plugged with ivory in the lower part of the drapery (information from old Walters files).
Comments
Style related to the Zwettl Virgin and Child (Koechlin 62), and the Toledo Cathedral Virgin and Child (Koechlin 107), both dating to the late 13th century (Randall 1985).
Provenance
Bought from Jacques Seligmann in Paris in 1912 by Henry Walters; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Bibliography
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 267.
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