Inv. ABM bi765
Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on right arm; naked Christ; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand.
Catalogus 1962 and the Hague 1963: Northern Netherlands, end of the 15th century.
Koekkoek 1987: Northern Netherlands, 2nd half of the 15th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding: gold (hair).
Reverse
Carved in the round but lower relief on the reverse.
Provenance
Unknown provenance.
Bibliography
Het Kerstgebeuren in de Beeldende Kunst, exhibition catalogue, Rotterdam, V.U.-gebouw in Rotterdam, 24 December 1948-3 January 1949, s.n.
Catalogus Beeldhouwkunst in het Aartsbisschoppelijk Museum, Utrecht (Utrecht, 1962), no. 120.
Kunst uit kerkelijke Musea in Nederland in het Gemeentemuseum, exhibition catalogue, The Hague, 1963, no. 96.
R. Koekkoek, Gotische ivoren in het Catharijneconvent (Utrecht, 1987), no. 16.
Mittelalterliche Elfenbeinarbeiten aus der Sammlung des Badischen Landesmuseums Karlsruhe, ed. by K.-G. Beuckers (Karlsruhe, 1999), pp. 89, 91, fig. 63.
F. Scholten, 'A late medieval ivory of the Immaculate Conception from the Low Countries' in Luft unter die Flügel... Beiträge zur mitterlalterlichen Kunst: Festschrift für Hiltrud Westermann-Angerhausen, ed. by A. von Hülsen-Esch and D. Täube (Hildesheim, Munich and New York, 2010), pp. 186-192 (p. 191, n. 20).
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