Seated Virgin and Child; Virgin holding a fruit in her right hand; Christ seated on the Virgin's left knee' Christ in long robe; Virgin trampling a winged dragon (basilisk; hybrid) under her left foot; crown; bench decorated with trefoil arches.
Randall 1993: French (Paris), 1st quarter of 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding (later; back of the throne).
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: head of Christ, right hand of the Virgin and fruit she holds (later replacement), tip of the Virgin's right foot.
Replacement head of Christ child different from one photographed by Koechlin in 1920s.
Comments
On a wood base mounted on an hexagonal stand of pearwood carved with floral decoration (later).
Provenance
Collection of Octave Homberg, Paris (c. 1924). Major Astor collection, at Hever Castle (Kent): sold, Sotheby's, London, Hever Castle sale, 6 May 1983, lot 237. Private collection (in 1993).
Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 7.
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