Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive polychromy: red with gilt patterns for the robe of the Virgin and of Christ; blue with a gilt pattern of eight-pointed stars for the cloak and veil of the Virgin. The base and throne are gilt. Evidence of two layers of similar paint.

Reverse
Thick wood backing fastened by four wooden pegs

Object Condition
Missing: head of Christ Child (the crown is a later addition); both arms of the Virgin; crown of the Virgin.
Half-broken metal nail in the Virgin's head (revealed by X-radiography).
An ivory plug in the Virgin's hip may be a repair of a flaw in the ivory. Hole filled with a wooden peg in the Child's chest and shoulder could have been for attachment to a later support.

Comments
Randall identifies this Virgin as the 'Marcigny Virgin and Child', but Gaborit-Chopin argues for Louvre OA 10004 being the 'Marcigny Virgin'. The ivory is a thin plaque from the inner concave end of a tusk, it is fastened by wooden pegs to a foundation of wood, and was at one point fitted with a plinth.

Provenance
Priory of Marcigny, Saône-et-Loire, until the 19th century. Collection of Edouard Jeannez, Roanne. Claudius Côte collection, Lyon. Bought by Henry Walters before 1931; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Bibliography
T. Destève, 'La Collection de M. Claudius Côte', in Les Arts 59 (November 1906), pp. 28-32 (p. 32).
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 277.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), p. 440.
J. Lowden, Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery (London, 2013), pp. 46-49, fig. 27, in relation to no. 3.