Inv. 434
Seated Virgin and Child; Virgin holding a stem of flowers in her left hand; Christ seated on the Virgin's right knee; Christ holding a flower; crown; necklace; bench.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round. Back of the bench decorated with colonnettes and narrow vertical recesses.
Object Condition
Missing: right forearm of the Child; part of the crown.
Comments
Some details (the pearl necklace, the lower part of the mantle) are unusual and suggest a modern reworking.
Provenance
Collection of Friedrich Georg Hermann Culemann (b. 1811, d. 1886), Hannover (no. 494); acquired by the city of Hannover in 1887.
Bibliography
Führer durch das Kestner-Museum, Part 2: Mittelalter und Neuzeit, ed. by C. Schuchhardt (Hannover, 1904), p. 10, no. 30.
F. Stuttmann, Mittelalter I: Bronze, Email, Elfenbein (Hannover, 1966), p. 127, no. 131.
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