Gothic Ivories Project | Statuette (Front)

Statuette (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

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Ivory;metal (later crown)

Height: 170mm

Seated Virgin and Child (Virgo lactans); Christ in long robe; Christ standing in the Virgin's lap; crown.

Koechlin Number: 0638

Koechlin 1924: French, mid 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Missing: part of the Virgin's cloak at base.

Provenance
Collection of Professor W. Weisbach, Berlin (at least 1898-1924).

Bibliography
Ausstellung von Kunstwerken des Mittelalters und der Renaissance aus berliner Privatbesitz, veranstaltet von der kunstgeschichtlichen Gesellschaft, exhibition catalogue, Berlin, 20 May-3 July 1898, pl. XIV, no. no. 1.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 238 & 239, II, no. 638, III, pl. CVII.

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