Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse; Virgo lactans); two standing angels holding candlesticks; saint George kneeling in prayer; coat of arms.
Randall 1993: English, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Two missing hinges.
Object Condition
Trimmed on three sides, still has hinge marks on the right side.
Missing: lower left corner.
The lower side was cut for a mount. Old hole drilled in the lower right corner.
Provenance
Collection of Alfred Lehmann, Paris: his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 11 June 1925. Collection of Robert H. Tannahill, Detroit: given by him to the Institute in 1943.
Bibliography
The Seventh Loan Exhibition of French Gothic Art of the Thirteenth to Fifteenth Century, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1928, no. 64 (with ill.).
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 106.
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