Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; Christ in long robe; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; Christ playing with veil of his mother.
Base: scenes from the life of the Virgin under six cusped arches, including Adoration of the Magi and Presentation in the Temple.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy on the Virgin's cloak.
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: head of the Virgin, section from one of the trefoil arches.
Chip to the drapery. Two holes on the left side for the attachment of a chain.
Comments
Apparently carved from a late-12th-century oliphant.
Provenance
Sold Philips, London, 5 July 1999, lot 165; Sotheby's, London, 15 December 1999, lot 17. Private collection, London: bought, Sotheby's, London, 8 July 2005, lot 17.
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