Inv. 2113 (almost completely destroyed)
Standing Virgin and Child; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; Christ seated on left arm; Christ in long robe; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand.
Pinnacles. Pointed trefoil in the gable.
Molinier 1890: France, 14th century.
Vöge 1900: France, early 14th century.
Volbach 1923: France, late 13th century.
Koechlin 1924: French, late 13th or early 14th century.
Dokumentation 2006: France, late 13th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of missing hinges on either side.
Object Condition
In 1924
Missing: right hand of the Virgin (replaced); parts of the crown (restored); finger on the right hand of Christ; columns, canopy (restored). Many architectural elements probably modern.
Today
Almost completely destroyed during WWII. Ten fragments have survived (see Provenance).
Comments
This piece would originally have been the centre of a polyptych whose wings closed over it to enclosed the Virgin statuette.
Provenance
Collection of Frédéric Spitzer, Paris: his sale, Paris, 1893, lot 124; either acquired at the Spitzer sale by Oscar Hainauer (b. 1840s?, d. 1894) who then gifted it to the Museum, or bought by the Museum with funding given by him; undocumented after 7 April 1945; ten fragments returned by the Soviet Union to the Museum in 1958.
Bibliography
La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1890), I, no. 89 (E. Molinier).
W. Vöge, Die Königlichen Museen zu Berlin. Beschreibung der Bildwerke der christlichen Epochen. Zweite Auflage. Elfenbeinwerke (Berlin, 1900), no. 80, pl. 26.
W. F. Volbach, Die Bildwerke des Deutschen Museums, Die Elfenbeinbildwerke (Berlin, 1923), pp. 35-36, pl. 42.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 125; II, no. 134bis.
Dokumentation der Verluste. Skulpturensammlung, VII: Skulpturen, Möbel (Berlin, 2006), p. 239.
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