Seated Virgin and Child (Virgo lactans); Christ seated on the Virgin's left knee; Christ in long robe; crown.
Randall 1993: French (Paris), 2nd quarter of the 14th century.
Museum files 2010: c. 1300, French (Paris area).
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of polychromy and gilding (arches and tracery on the back of the seat).
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: left hand of Christ.
Provenance
D. Ricardo Blanco collection, Santiago de Compostela. Spanish Art Gallery, London. Joseph Brummer collection, New York; bought thanks to the Maitland F. Griggs Fund at the Joseph Brummer sale, New York, 14 May 1949, lot 696.
Bibliography
Art of the Courts of France and England from 1259-1328 ; L'Art et la cour: France et Angleterre 1259-1328, exhibition catalogue, Ottawa, Galerie nationale du Canada, 1972, no. 72, pl. 97.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 10.
Guide Muzej Mimara, ed. by T. Lukšić (Zagreb, 2003), p. 101, in relation to no. 155.
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