Gothic Ivories Project | Statuette (CAST, front)

Statuette (CAST, front)

View other images of this object

CAST, back

Links

Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: c. 222mm
Width: c. 70mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; Virgin holding an open book; Christ reading.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: object or stem of flowers once held in the Virgin's right hand.

Comments
So far, this piece is only known through a cast made in the mid 19th century. The photograph on this page is of the cast now in the Conway Library at the Courtauld Institute of Art (no. 347).

Image

All images on this website are made available exclusively for scholarly and educational purposes and may not be used commercially.

Please remember to acknowledge any use of the site in publications and lectures as: 'Gothic Ivories Project at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, www.gothicivories.courtauld.ac.uk', followed by the date you accessed the site.