Seated Virgin and Child; Christ standing in the Virgin's lap; Christ in long robe; bench.
Randall 1993: Lower Rhenish (?), 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: French, c. 1350-1375.
Attribution
Unknown
Object Condition
Missing: head of Christ.
Provenance
Demotte collection, early 20th century. Collection of Gabriel Dereppe, New York (in 1943): sold by him to the Brummer Gallery, New York, on 11 November 1943; sold, Brummer sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, 23 April 1949, lot 648, to the Museum of Fine Arts (William Francis Warden Fund).
Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 22.
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