Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; Christ in long robe; crown (later); blessing gesture; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand.
Falke 1922: 19th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, end of the 1st third of 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: brooch (trace on the Virgin's chest); crown (replaced); right hand of the Virgin (replaced).
Provenance
Collection of Oscar Hainauer (b. 1840s?, d. 1894), Berlin (Inv. Eb. 1); collection of Julie Hainauer (b. 1884, d. 1906), Berlin (in 1898).
Bibliography
W. Bode, Die Sammlung Oscar Hainauer (Berlin, 1897), no. 130.
Ausstellung von Kunstwerken des Mittelalters und der Renaissance aus berliner Privatbesitz, veranstaltet von der kunstgeschichtlichen Gesellschaft, exhibition catalogue, Berlin, 20 May-3 July 1898, pl. XIII.
W. Vöge, Die Königlichen Museen zu Berlin. Beschreibung der Bildwerke der christlichen Epochen. Zweite Auflage. Elfenbeinwerke (1900), p. 65.
O. van Falke, Die Marcy Faelschungen (Belvedere, 1922), no. 1, pl. VI.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 108; II, no. 108.
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