Height: 321mm (incl. knop)
Width: 176mm
Depth: 33-34mm
Volute: Coronation of the Virgin; angel crowning the Virgin; blessing gesture.
Shaft: Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two standing angels holding candlesticks; under arches. Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit.
Foliated decoration.
Randall 1993: Tuscan or Lombard (?), 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Knop is modern.
Provenance
Collection of A. J. B. Beresford Hope, Esq. (b. 1820, d. 1887)in 1876 (if Westwood 751). Collection of Mortimer Schiff, Paris: his sale, Leman and Mannheim, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 13-17 March 1905, lot 278. Collection of Lord Astor, Hever Castle, Kent: sale, Sotheby's, London, 6 May 1983, lot 234. Ronald Lauder collection, New York. Private collection, London (bought from Brimo de Laroussilhe, Paris, 7 December 2007).
Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 751 (73.266). (Iconography corresponds, but the measurements do not)
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 204, pl. 19.
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