Inv. 2368 (almost completely destroyed)
Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on right arm; Virgin holding a bird in her left hand; Christ in long robe; crown.
Vöge 1900: French, 14th century.
Volbach 1923: France, mid 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Dokumentation 2006: France, mid 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy (Volbach 1923).
Object Condition
Prior to WWII
Missing: head of Christ. Damaged crown.
Today
Almost completely destroyed during WWII: only one fragment has survived (head of the Virgin).
Provenance
Donated by Mrs. von Sallet in 1898 to the Museum; undocumented after 7 April 1945; one surviving fragment returned to the Museum by the Soviet Union in 1958.
Bibliography
W. Vöge, Die Königlichen Museen zu Berlin. Beschreibung der Bildwerke der christlichen Epochen. Zweite Auflage. Elfenbeinwerke (Berlin, 1900), no. 85, pl. XXVII.
W. F. Volbach, Die Bildwerke des Deutschen Museums, Die Elfenbeinbildwerke (Berlin, 1923), p. 37, pl. 44.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 246; II, no. 700.
Dokumentation der Verluste. Skulpturensammlung, VII: Skulpturen, Möbel (Berlin, 2006), p. 240.
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