Inv. 953.62.4
Seated Virgin and Child (Virgo lactans); two musician angels playing string instruments; throne decorated with pierced quatrefoils, arches and pinnacles; crown.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.
Koechlin 1924: France, end of the 14th century.
Randall 1993: Rhenish or Mosan, last quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Flat and smooth, with a circular recess in the centre.
Two sets of long incisions in the left edge (visible from the back).
Object Condition
Worn. Two central holes in the upper part of the panel.
Comments
This panel probably once was the cover of a set of writing tablets.
Provenance
Collection of Georges Hoentschel (b. 1855, d. 1915), Paris: sale, Drouot, Paris, 14-15 April 1910, lot 22 (purchased by Fitzhenry); Fitzhenry collection, London: sale, 1913, lot 194. Acquired in 1953 by the museum.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 208, 219; II, no. 619.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 152.
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