Seated Virgin and Child; Christ standing on the Virgin's left knee; Christ in long robe; crown.
Lowden 2008 and Museum's opinion 2008: Normandy (?), c. 1300 (?).
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Worn by handling.
Comments
The base is made of a different piece of ivory.
Provenance
Martin Le Roy collection (not in his 1906 catalogue). J. Marquet de Vasselot collection. Thomson collection, Toronto: acquired from Sotheby's, New York, 29 January 1999, lot 42; since 2008, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto.
Bibliography
J. Cherry, J. Lowden, Medieval Ivories and Works of Art: The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, 2008), cat. 17.
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