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Subject
Religious.

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Utrecht, Catharijneconvent

Inv. ABM bi760

Ivory

Height: 130mm
Width: 57mm
Depth: 29mm (max)
Weight: 123g

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; Virgin holding flowers in her right hand; Christ in long robe; belt.

Utrecht 1945-1946: France, 14th century.
Catalogus 1962; The Hague 1963; Koekkoek 1987: Lotharingian, mid 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: mid 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: gold along the hems, in the hair; green (?) inside the Virgin's cloak.

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: both hand of Christ.

Provenance
Given before 19 September 1882 to the convent by Mgr. A. I. Schaepman.

Bibliography
Catalogus van de tenstoonstelling Kerkelijke Kunst, exhibition catalogue, Antwerp, Stedelijke Feestzaal aan de Meir te Antwerpen, 16 October-15 November 1948, no. 237.
B. van der Linden-Nijdam, 'Ivoorsnijkunst, één der oudste vormen van creativiteit', in Kunst en antiekrevue 10 (1984), pp. 9-16 (pp. 12-13).
Middeleeuwsche kunst uit eigen en particulier bezit, exhibition catalogue, Utrecht, Aartsbisschoppelijk Museum, 21 December 1945-20 January 1946, no. 53.
Catalogus Beeldhouwkunst in het Aartsbisschoppelijk Museum, Utrecht (Utrecht, 1962), no. 32 (with ill.).
Kunst uit kerkelijke Musea in Nederland in het Gemeentemuseum, exhibition catalogue, The Hague, 1963, no. 57.
R. Koekkoek, Gotische ivoren in het Catharijneconvent (Utrecht, 1987), no. 3.


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