Gothic Ivories Project | Relief (appliqué); known as the Baden Virgin (Front)

Relief (appliqué); known as the Baden Virgin (Front)

Relief (appliqué); known as the Baden Virgin (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Saints.

Repository Institution
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Zürich, Swiss National Museum

LM 19904

Ivory

Height: 245 mm
Width: 92 mm (at the base)
Depth: 45 mm

Seated Virgin and Child (Sedes Sapientiae); Christ seated frontally; Christ seated on the Virgin's left knee; Christ in long robe; crown; book; blessing gesture; Virgin trampling two monsters (winged dragons); Virgin holding a fruit in her right hand.

Museum's opinion 2014: early 19th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Cracked.
Hole in the underside to attach to a base. Two holes in the back.

Provenance
From the Cistercian abbey of Mehrerau, near Bregenz (Kloster Mehrerau).

Bibliography
B. Zierhut-Bösch, Ikonografie der Mutterschaftsmystik (Rombach, 2008).

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