Inv. 670 (lost)
Seated Virgin and Child (Virgo lactans); two angels crowning the Virgin; musician angels (psaltery; string instruments); throne.
Tracery.
Westwood 1876: Germany, late 15th century.
Vöge 1900: Cologne, late 14th century.
Volbach 1923: German, late 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: German in a French style?, late 14th or early 15th century.
Dokumentation 2006: Cologne, late 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Provenance
Acquired in Cologne by the Kunstkammer in 1845; undocumented after 7 April 1945.
Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 504 (`73.193).
W. Vöge, Die Königlichen Museen zu Berlin. Beschreibung der Bildwerke der christlichen Epochen. Zweite Auflage. Elfenbeinwerke (1900), no. 136, pl. XXXIV.
W. F. Volbach, Die Bildwerke des Deutschen Museums, Die Elfenbeinbildwerke (Berlin, 1923), pp. 50-51, pl. 55.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 208, 219, 225; II, no. 622bis; III, pl. CIII.
Dokumentation der Verluste. Skulpturensammlung, VII: Skulpturen, Möbel (Berlin, 2006), p. 64.
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