Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round. Label: K500 A.

Object Condition
Missing: right hand of Christ.
Broken along the Virgin's right cheek (glued back into place).

Comments
The base has an engraved inscription: 'O Mater dei memento mei'.

Provenance
O. H. Kahn collection, New York. J. Brummer collection, New York. Bachstitz collection, The Hague. Kofler-Truniger collection, Lucerne (no. S.40). Blumka Gallery and Julius Böhler (Collecting Treasures of the Past. The Kofler-Truniger Collection and Other Important Early Works of Art, Blumka Gallery, 26 January-11 February 2000, no. 18); private collection, London (bought from Blumka Gallery, New York, January 2000).

Bibliography
G. Biermann, 'Eine französische Elfenbeinmadonna des 14. Jahrhunderts', in De Cicerone, XIV (1922), p. 758 (with ill.).
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.40.
P. Bloch et al., 'Mittelalterliche Kunst der Sammlung Kofler-Truniger, Luzern', in Aachener Kunstblätter, 31 (1965), p. 18, no. S.40.
Collecting Treasures of the Past: The Kofler-Truniger Collection and Other Important Early Works of Art, Blumka Gallery, New York, 2000, no. 18.
P. Williamson, Medieval and Later Treasures from a Private Collection, exhibition catalogue, London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2005, no. 23.
J. Lowden, Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery (London, 2013), p. 60, fig. 34, in relation to no. 6.