Seated Virgin and Child (Sedes Sapientiae); Christ seated frontally; Christ seated on the Virgin's left knee; Christ in long robe; crown; bench.
Schweitzer 1910: Lower Rhenish, 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding: throne, neck, hair, crown of the Virgin, along the hems.
Reverse
Carved in the round. Three rosettes decorating the back of the bench.
Object Condition
Missing: right hand of the Virgin; crown partly broken.
Provenance
Probably from Wassenberg (district of Heinsberg); collection of the headmaster Hermann Joseph M. H. Steiger (b. 1847, d. 1905), Düsseldorf-Derendorf; by bequest to the Suermondt-Museum in 1905.
Bibliography
H. Schweitzer, 'Jahresbericht des städtischen Suermondt-Museums für das Jahr 1905/06', in Aachener Kunstblätter I (Aachen, 1906), p. 20, fig. 18 on p. 27.
H. Schweitzer, Die Skulpturen-Sammlung im Städtischen Suermondt-Museum zu Aachen (Aachen, 1910), I (text), p. 83; II/III (plates), pl. 64.
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