Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive polychromy (probably partly modern): dark red for the Virgin's robe with gilded patterns, dark blue for the Virgin's cloak, veil and the Child's robe. Gilding in the Virgin's hair, veil and on the Child's robe.

Reverse
Carved in the round. Hole in the back.

Object Condition
Missing: torso, arms and head of the Child; fingers of the Virgin's right hand.
Base was trimmed (including the bottom of the Virgin's robe).
Worn.

Comments
No crown seems to have been intended.

Provenance
Bought by Henry Walters from Léon Gruel in Paris before 1925; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Bibliography
Transformations of the Court Style: Gothic art in Europe, 1270 to 1330, ed. by D. Gillerman, exhibition catalogue, Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, 1977, no. 13.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 264.
Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. by Peter Barnet, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 1997, p. 127, no. 7.
J. Hamburger, The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany (New York, 1998), p. 439, fig. 9.9.