Inv. 436
Seated Virgin and Child; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; Christ standing on the Virgin's left knee; Christ touching the back of the Virgin's veil; Christ in long robe; bench; crown.
Stuttmann 1966 and museum's opinion 2013: French, 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of modern gilding and polychromy: gold (along the hems and hair; crown), red (inside the Virgin's veil; flower; fruit), blue (lining of the Virgin's cloak), black (eyes; shoes).
Reverse
Flat, with crosshatching in the lower part.
Object Condition
Missing: thumb of the Virgin's right hand; part of the crown.
Provenance
Collection of Friedrich Georg Hermann Culemann (b. 1811, d. 1886), Hannover (no. 450); acquired by the city of Hannover in 1887.
Bibliography
Führer durch das Kestner-Museum, Part 2: Mittelalter und Neuzeit, ed. by C. Schuchhardt (Hannover, 1904), p. 56, no. 74.
F. Stuttmann, Mittelalter I: Bronze, Email, Elfenbein (Hannover, 1966), p. 126, no. 129.
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