Inv. 71.247
Seated Virgin and Child; two angels crowning the Virgin; angels standing on leaf terminals; Christ Child holding a bird in his left hand; throne.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: English or German (?), 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two hinges on the right side.
Object Condition
Chip in the right corner of the gable. Broken in the lower left corner. Candle burn on the arm and face of the angel on the right. Seven holes in the borders suggesting subsequent use as decoration for a book cover.
Provenance
Collection of Octave Homberg (b. 1876, d. 1941), Paris: his sale, Paris, 16 May 1908, lot 472. Bought by Jacques Seligmann in same sale, Paris in 1908. Bought by Henry Walters in Paris in 1912; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 122; II, no. 123.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 302.
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