Inv. 71.241
Standing Virgin and Child; Virgin holding a bird in her right hand; Christ seated on left arm; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand (replaced in wood); drilled pupils.
Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: Mosan, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of red at the back of the Virgin's robe.
Reverse
Carved in the round. Extensive traces of red at the back of the Virgin's robe.Rectangular hole for attachment to a shrine or tabernacle.
Object Condition
Missing: head of Christ; crown; left hand of Christ (later replaced by wooden hand holding a fruit); ends of both feet of the Virgin.
Large chip in the lower part of the Virgin's robe at the front (caused by the iron spike attaching the statuette to its later base.
Comments
Randall 1985: Style related to a group of marble sculptures from the Liège region in the Meuse Valley, dating from c. 1340 to c. 1370.
Provenance
Bought by Henry Walters in 1914; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Bibliography
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 281.
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