Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: red in the hair of the Virgin and along the lower hem of Christ's robe (could be paint or bole for gilding). Designs still visible on the hem of the robes.

Reverse
Flat.
Crosshatching on the lower half of the object on the reverse: was once mounted. Crosshatching seems original.

Object Condition
Missing: left forearm of Christ Child; upper part of the head of the Virgin (was a separate piece of ivory), probably with crown.
Small hole under the chest of Christ. Hole at the bottom (probably modern).

Provenance
Bought by Henry Walters from Léon Gruel in 1914 in Paris; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Bibliography
R. G. Calkins, A Medieval Treasury: An Exhibition of Medieval Art from the Third to the Sixteenth Century, exhibition catalogue, White Museum of Art, Cornell University and M. W. Proctor Institute, Utica, 1968, no. 73.
R. H. Randall, 'A Monumental Ivory', in Gatherings in Honour of Dorothy Miner (Baltimore, 1974), p. 295, fig. 11.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 278.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 8.