Ivory;silver-gilt (later crown and base);rock crystal (later base);bone (relic in the base)
Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; Christ in long robe.
Berlin 2010: Paris, c. 1390.
Museum's opinion 2011: France (Paris), c. 1390.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: red and black (lips, eyes, features of the Virgin and Child).
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: left arm of Christ; flower stem held by the Virgin.
Chip on the back of the veil.
Comments
The base contains a relic.
Provenance
Probably a donation of bishop Gerhard vom Berge (bishop from 1365 to 1398) to the Carthusian monastery he had founded in Hildesheim. Bequest of the local clockmaker Todt for the cathedral treasury in the 19th century.
Bibliography
V. H. Elbern and H. Reuther, 'Der Hildesheimer Domschatz', in Die Diözese Hildesheim in Vergagenheit und Gegenwart 36 (Hildesheim, 1969), p. 53, no. 41.
Schätze des Glaubens: Meisterwerke aus dem Dom-Museum Hildesheim und dem Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, ed. by L. Lambacher, exhibition catalogue, Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst, 2010, p. 121, no. 56.
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