Gothic Ivories Project | Statuette (Front)

Statuette (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 250mm

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ standing on the Virgin's right knee; Christ in long robe; Virgin holding a bird in her left hand; brooch; bench.

Koechlin Number: 0692

Koechlin 1924: French, 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: head and right and upper part of the body of Christ.
Chipped around the base.

Provenance
Collection of Charles Gillot. Christie's, Paris, 4-5 March 2008, lot 241.

Bibliography
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue Officiel illustré de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), cat. no. 89.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 246; II, no. 692.

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