Inv. 686
Seated Virgin and Child; Christ seated on the Virgin's right knee; bare-chested Christ; Virgin holding a flower in her left hand; Christ holding an open book in his left hand; Christ holding a fruit in his right hand; crown.
Base: faces.
Vöge 1900: German, late 14th century.
Volbach 1923: Northern Italy, c. 1400.
Darmstadt and Munich 1999: Northern Italy (?), 1st third of the 15th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: Northern Italy, 1st third of the 15th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding: hair, along the hems, flowers; fruit; crown.
Reverse
Curved. Carved in the round but lower relief on the back.
Provenance
Acquired in Fürth (near Nuremberg) in 1854 for the Kunstkammer.
Bibliography
W. Bode, H. von Tschudi, Beschreibung der Bildwerke der christlichen Epoche. Königliche Museen zu Berlin (Berlin, 1888), p. 143.
W. Vöge, Die Königlichen Museen zu Berlin. Beschreibung der Bildwerke der christlichen Epochen. Zweite Auflage. Elfenbeinwerke (Berlin, 1900), no. 137.
W. F. Volbach, Die Bildwerke des Deutschen Museums, Die Elfenbeinbildwerke (Berlin, 1923), p. 55, pl. 43.
Die Parler und der Schöne Stil 1350-1400. Europäische Kunst unter den Luxemburgern, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Schnütgen-Museum in der Kunsthalle, 1978, I, p. 86.
Meisterwerke aus Elfenbein der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, exhibition catalogue, Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum and Munich, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, 1999, no. 51.
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