Seated Virgin and Child (Sedes Sapientiae); Christ seated on the Virgin's left knee; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; Christ playing with veil of his mother; Virgin holding a fruit (?) in her right hand; bench.
Migeon 1904: France, 12th century.
Bertaux 1912: Auvergne, 12th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, beginning of the 13th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Object Condition
Missing: head of Christ (replaced with a modern head); crown.
Comments
Drilled pupils.
Provenance
Carlo Micheli collection, Paris. Collection of Octave Homberg (b. 1876, d. 1941), Paris: his sale, Paris, 11-16 May 1908, lot 461 (purchased by Trotti). Claudius Côte collection, Lyon (at least 1912-1924).
Bibliography
G. Migeon, 'Collection de M. Octave Homberg', in Les Arts 36 (December 1904), pp. 32-48 (p. 34).
Quelques pièces de la collection Claudius Côte (Lyon, 1912), pl. XIII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 48; II, no. 2; III, pl. I.
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