Seated Virgin and Child; Christ in long robe; Christ seated on the Virgin's left knee; saint Dorothy holding a basket with fruits and a stem of flowers; saint Catherine of Alexandria; crown.
On the back:
Register 1: two standing angels; towers.
Register 2: two standing angels holding censers; towers.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round. Elaborate architecture.
Object Condition
Missing: head of the Virgin (had a replacement head in 1905).
Comments
Two other pieces with similar iconography exist: one in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and one in Münster Cathedral.
Provenance
Collection of Mortimer Schiff, Paris: his sale, Leman and Mannheim, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 13-17 March 1905, lot 267 (photograph with a head). Sotheby's, London, 11 December 1980, lot 30. Collection of Ed. Lubin, New York (in 1984).
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