Inv. 71.211
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); angel crowning the Virgin; two angels holding candlesticks; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; Christ seated on left arm.
Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: French (?), 1340-1350.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Two missing hinges on either side.
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding: gold dots pattern on the background, gold on halo and angel's wing.
Reverse
Upper edge of the back painted in gilding with criss-cross design.
Object Condition
Original indentation at the top left; broken at the top right. Bottom of the base has been cut.
Missing: arms of the crowning angel and crown.
Provenance
Bought by Henry Walters from Henry Daguerre in 1924 in Paris; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Bibliography
R. H. Randall, Medieval Ivories in the Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, 1969), no. 13.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 293.
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