Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of blue on the Virgin's robe; traces of gilt patterns along the hems.

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: head and left forearm of Christ; part of the right hand of Christ; right forearm of the Virgin; upper part of the Virgin's head and crown; wedge of ivory at the base; right half of the Virgin's face restored in the 19th century.
Two large chips along the base.

Comments
In 1929, this statuette was on a red marble pedestal set wth a champlevé enamel plaque.

Provenance
Christie's, London, 4-5 July 1929, lot 246. Collection of M. Godfroy Bauer, Nice; bought by Henry Walters from Henry Daguerre in 1930 in Paris; Walter Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, 'A Monumental Ivory', in Gatherings in Honour of Dorothy Miner, ed. by U.E. McCracken, L.M.C. Randall and R.H. Randall, Jr (Baltimore, 1974), pp. 285-287.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 271.
P. Williamson, Medieval Sculpture and Works of Art. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection (London, 1987), p. 118, fig. 1.
S. Guérin, 'An ivory Virgin at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, in a Gothic sculptor's oeuvre', in The Burlington Magazine 1311, Vol. CLIV (June 2012), pp. 394-402 (p. 395 footnote).
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 6.