Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on right arm; Christ in long robe; Christ making a blessing gesture with his right hand; Virgin holding a fruit in her left hand; crown; brooch.
Koechlin 1924: France, end of 1st third of 14th century.
Princeton 1986: French, 14th century.
Randall 1993: French, 2nd quarter of 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of polychromy and gilding, especially along the hems.
Reverse
Uncarved. Flat and scored.
Object Condition
Ivory with staining. Hole in the base (probably original). Some vertical cracks.
Comments
Was certainly designed to be in the centre of a shrine, as its reverse is not carved.
Provenance
Maurice Kann collection: Antoine sale Paris, 5 December 1910, lot 224. Given by Alexander P. Morgan, Class of 1922, and his nieces and nephews, Sarah Gardner Tiers, Mary Josephine Fenton, and Alfred Gardner, Class of 1952.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 235; II, no. 628.
Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, XXIII, no. 2 (1964), p. 45.
Selections from the Art Museum Princeton University (Princeton, 1986), p. 61.
A. St. Clair, E. Parker McLachlan, The Carver's Art: Medieval Sculpture in Ivory, Bone, and Horn, exhibition catalogue, New Brunswick, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, 1989, no. 76.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 15.
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