Seated Virgin (fragment of a seated Virgin and Child); bench.
Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, 1st half of the 13th century.
Sandron 1993: Northern France, Mosan (Rheims, Chartres), c. 1220-1230.
Attribution
Unknown
Object Condition
Missing: head, arms and part of the bust of the Virgin; Christ.
Provenance
Édouard Bouet collection. Collection of Ernst and Marthe Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne: sale, Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1979, lot 23.
Bibliography
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), I, no. S.32, p. 17.
D. Sandron, 'La Sculpture en ivoire au début du XIIIe siècle: d'un monde à l'autre', in Revue de l'Art, 102 (1993), pp. 48-59 (p. 48, n. 22).
K. Holbert, 'The Vindication of a Controversial Early Thirteenth-Century Vierge ouvrante in the Walters Art Gallery', in Journal of the Walters Art Gallery 55-56 (1997-1998), pp. 101-121, fig. 13.
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