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Statuette (Front)

Statuette (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum

BK-NM-5778

Ivory

Height: 117mm

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ standing on the Virgin's left knee; Christ holding a bird with both hands; bench; crown.


Koechlin Number: 0679

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century
Museum's opinion 2011: France, c. 1330-40


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Very faint traces of polychromy: red, orange or ochre paint on the left side of the bench.

Reverse
Carved in the round

Object Condition
Missing: Virgin's right forearm; crown broken and cracked; right breast chipped.

Provenance
Gift of the Departement van Binnenlandse Zaken to the museum in 1883.

Bibliography
A. Pit, Catalogus van beeldhouwkunst in het Nederlandsch Museum voor geschiedenis en kunst te Amsterdam (1904), p. 6, no. 14.
A. Pit, Catalogus van beeldhouwkunst in het Nederlandsch Museum voor geschiedenis en kunst te Amsterdam (1915), p. 6, no. 12.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 244, II, no. 679.
J. Leeuwenberg, Beeldhouwkunst in het Rijksmuseum ('s-Gravenhage, 1973), p. 439, no. 767.
Gotische ivoren: Rijksmuseum het Catharijneconvent Utrecht, catalogue, Utrecht, 1987, no. 4. tbc
Een hogere werkelijkheid, Duitse en Franse beeldhouwkunst 1200-1600 uit het Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, ed. by F. Scholten and G. de Werd, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam, Museum Kurhaus Kleef, 2004, pp. 142-3, no. 48.
M. van Vlierden, Hout-en steensculptuur van Museum Catharijneconvent: ca. 1200-1600 (Utrecht, 2004), p. 477.


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