Inv. 1992-221
Standing Virgin and Child holding a stem of flowers; angel crowning the Virgin; flowery bushes (roses).
Crosshatched background. Roped border.
Meurer 1994 and Paris 2004: Paris, c. 1400.
Museum's opinion 2012: France or Netherlands, c. 1400.
Rotterdam 2012: Southern Netherlands or Northern France.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of original gilding and polychromy: gold (crowns; hair; flowers).
Reverse
Raised moulding to hold the lid in place. Label with printed inscription: '2362'.
Provenance
Said to have come from Bohemia. Bought in 1992 on the art market.
Bibliography
H. Meurer, 'Maria mit dem Kind', in Jahrbuch der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen in Baden-Württemberg (1994), pp. 254-255.
Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. by Peter Barnet, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 1997, fig. 72a.
Mittelalterliche Elfenbeinarbeiten aus der Sammlung des Badischen Landesmuseums Karlsruhe, ed. by K.-G. Beuckers (Karlsruhe, 1999), fig. 7, p. 20.
Paris 1400. Les Arts sous Charles VI, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 2004, no. 121.
S. Kemperdick, F. Lammertse, The Road to Van Eyck, exhibition catalogue, Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, 2012, no. 49.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, p. 599, in relation to no. 181.
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