Inv. 71.237
Standing Virgin and Child; Christ Child seated on her left arm (missing).
Randall 1969: French.
Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: English, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: most of the body of Christ Child (except right foot), right hand of the Virgin; metal crown.
Scoring along crown indent.
Broken and cracked in several places.
Comments
According to Randall (1985), the treatment of the eyes characteristic of English work.
Provenance
Bought from Léon Gruel by Henry Walters in Paris in 1914; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Bibliography
R. H. Randall, Medieval Ivories in the Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, 1969), no. 20.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 280.
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