Inv. 91 C
Standing Virgin and Child; bare-chested Christ; Christ seated on the Virgin's right arm; Virgin holding a bird in her left hand.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Chiesi 2011: Germany (Middle Rhineland), last quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Style of the Kremsmünster Master (Chiesi 2011)
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: head, right hand and one toe of Christ; crown of the Virgin (probably originally metal), two fingers and front part of the Virgin's robe.
Large hole in the Virgin's robe.
Provenance
Carrand collection: bequeathed by Louis Carrand (d. 1888) to the Museo del Bargello in 1888.
Bibliography
I. B. Supino, Catalogo del R. Museo Nazionale di Firenze (Rome, 1898), p. 228, no. 91.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 246; II, no. 699.
B. Chiesi, Catalogo degli avori gotici del Museo Nazionale del Bargello (unpublished PhD thesis - Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2011), pp. 476-483.
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