Standing Virgin and Child; angel crowning the Virgin.
Koechlin 1924: France, beginning of the 2nd third of the 14th century.
Randall 1993: French (Paris), 2nd quarter of the 14th century.
Museum online catalogue 2009: France (Ile-de-France), c. 1325-1350.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Two missing hinges on both sides.
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy (halo).
Object Condition
Gable partly broken.
Provenance
Collection of Mrs Louis Stern, Paris (in 1924). Arnold Seligmann, Rey and Co., New York: sold to the Harvard Museum in April 1931.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 122; II, no. 116; III, pl. XXXV.
American Magazine of Art 23, no. 2 (August 1931), p. 145 (with ill.).
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 41 (ill. on p. 56).
E. Bradford Smith, Medieval Art in America: Patterns of Collecting, 1800-1940, exhibition catalogue, Pittsburgh, The Frick Art Museum, April 1-May 26 1996, Penn State University, The Palmer Museum of Art, January 9-March 3 1996, p. 179.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 61.
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