Seated Virgin and Child (Virgo lactans); Christ seated on the Virgin's right knee; bare-chested Christ; Virgin holding a scroll in her right hand.
Ivory throne with Flamboyant tracery and openwork base.
Randall 1993: Flemish, 2nd quarter of the 15th century or slightly later.
Museum files 2010: Flemish, 2nd quarter of the 15th century or 19th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy.
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Worn.
Provenance
Bought by J. Lionberger Davis, Class of 1900, from Mathias Komor, New York in 1968 and given to the Art Museum that same year.
Bibliography
W. F. Volbach, Die Bildwerke des Deutschen Museums, Die Elfenbeinbildwerke (Berlin, 1923), col. 1, p. 56, pl. 62.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 28.
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