Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); angel crowning the Virgin; two angels holding candlesticks; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; Christ Child holding a fruit in his left hand; Christ seated on left arm.
Pinnacles.
Koechlin 1924: French, early 14th century.
Williamson 2005: French (Paris), c. 1280-1300.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy on the background and on the garments; gilding in the pinnacles.
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Object Condition
Missing: candles; right and left colonnette (replaced).
Two holes in the upper edge. The pinnacles have been restored.
Provenance
Collection of Aimé Desmottes, Paris: his sale, Paris, Drouot, 19-23 March 1900, lot 278. Collection of Léopold Goldschmidt, Paris. Blumka Gallery, New York (in 1990; see Blumka Gallery, Medieval Masterworks 1200-1520); Private collection, London (bought on 2 February 1998 from Blumka Gallery, New York).
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 130; II, no. 169.
P. Williamson, Medieval and Later Treasures from a Private Collection, exhibition catalogue, London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2005, no. 25.
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