DEC1518 (formerly Inv. K 91B)
Seated Virgin and Child; Christ standing on the Virgin's left knee; Christ walking in the Virgin's lap; Christ playing with the cord of the Virgin's cloak; belt; bench.
Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: French, c. 1310-1320.
Williamson 1987: French (Paris), c. 1320-1330.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of gilding (hair) and polychromy: dark blue (lining of the Virgin's cloak), gold and blue patterns along the hems, red (lining of the veil; bench), green (outside of the veil; ground).
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: head of Christ; right forearm of the Virgin. Circular hole in the top of the Virgin's head. Circular dowel-hole and crosshatching on the underside of the base for fixing the statuette to a separate base.
Provenance
Collection of M. Larcade, Paris. Collection of E. and M. Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne. collection of Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza (b. 1921, d. 2002), Castagnola-Lugano (bought on 26 April 1971); thence by descent to the present owner.
Bibliography
Grosse Kunst des Mittelalters aus Privatbesitz, exhibition catalogue,Cologne, Schnütgen Museum, 1960, no. 20.
Kunstschätze in der Schweiz (Zürich, 1964), pl. 20.
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.33.
P. Lasko, 'A Notable Private Collection', in Apollo, June 1964, pp. 464-473, fig. 16.
H. Schnitzler, P. Bloch, C. Ratton and F. Volbach, 'Mittelalterliche Elfenbein- und Emailkunst aus der Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, Luzern', in Aachener Kunstblätter 31 (1965), no. S.33.
P. Williamson, Medieval Sculpture and Works of Art. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection (London, 1987), no. 22.
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