Side 1: Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two standing angels holding candlesticks; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand.
Side 2: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; Sun and Moon.
Kneeling angel supporting the volute.
Foliated decoration: vine leaves.
Koechlin 1924: France, mid 14th century.
Williamson 2005: French (Paris), c. 1300.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Right hand of the supporting angel is chipped. Large chip at the base of the stem on the Crucifixion side.
Provenance
Said to have come from Logroño. Collection of the Marqués de Monistrol, Madrid. On the French art market in 1909 (Koechlin 1924). Major Astor collection, at Hever Castle (Kent): sold, Sotheby's, London, Hever Castle sale, 6 May 1983, lot 232. Sotheby's, London, 7 December 1989, lot 22. Sotheby's, London, 2 July 1997, lot 41; private collection, London (in 2010).
Bibliography
J. de Dios de la Rada y Delgado, 'Baculo de marfil del siglo XIV', in Boletín de la Sociedad española de Excursiones, I (1893), p. 128.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 271, 274; II, no. 766.
M.-M. Estella Marcos, La Escultura de marfil en España románica y gótica (Madrid, 1984), p. 195, fig. 45.
P. Williamson, Medieval and Later Treasures from a Private Collection, exhibition catalogue, London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2005, no. 35.
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