Seated Virgin and Child; Christ in long robe; Christ on left arm; Virgin holding a fruit in her right hand; bench.
Molinier 1890 and Bode 1897: France, 14th century.
Ganay 1913: France, 13th century.
Koechlin 1924: French, late 13th century or early 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: red? (belt).
Reverse
Carved in the round, lower relief at the back. Back of the bench flat.
Object Condition
Missing: right hand of the Virgin (replaced), right hand of Christ partly broken and repaired.
Comments
Labels on the back and under the statuette with inscription 'no. 9', no. 364 and traces of another 'OH Eb.11' (Hainauer collection).
Provenance
Collection of Frédéric Spitzer collection, Paris: his sale, 17 April 1893, lot 117. Collection of Oscar Hainauer (b. 1840s?, d. 1894), Berlin (Inv. Eb. 11). Collection of Georges Dormeuil (at least from 1913); private collection, London: bought, Dormeuil sale, Sotheby's, Paris, 19 November 2007, lot 16.
Bibliography
La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1890), I, no. 82 (E. Molinier)
W. Bode, Die Sammlung Oscar Hainauer (Berlin, 1897), p. 82, no. 140.
Sammlung Oscar Hainauer, exhibition catalogue, Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 1898, pl. XIV, fig. 3.
Exposition d'objets d'art du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance, organisée par la marquise de Ganay chez Mr Jacques Seligmann, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Hôtel de Sagan, 1913, no. 112.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 103; II, no. 85; III, pl. XXVIII.
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