Inv. F 3217
Seated Virgin and Child; Christ standing on the Virgin's left knee; Christ in long robe; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; bench; crown.
Lapkovskaia 1956: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Kryzhanovskaya 2014: France (?), 1st half of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: part of the base around the Virgin's left foot; right forearm of the Virgin; both hands of Christ (all later replacement).
Comments
Underside has some crosshatching.
Provenance
Acquired in 1880 in Brussels by the Stieglitz Museum of Applied Arts; transferred to the Hermitage in 1926.
Bibliography
E. A. Lapkovskaia, Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh. Prikladnoe iskusstvo Zapadnoi Evropy V-XV vv. (State Hermitage Museum. Applied Arts of Western Europe from the 5th to the 15th century) (Leningrad [Saint Petersburg], 1956), p. 157.
Zachodnioeuropejska rzezba z kosci w latach 1100-1290 ze zbiorow Panstwowego Ermitazu v Leningradzie, exhibition catalogue, Warsaw, The National Museum, 1981, no. 23.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Petersburg, 2014), no. 79.
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