Seated Virgin and Child (Virgo Lactans); throne.
Crosshatched background.
Randall 1993: Flemish, 4th quarter of the 15th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Ivory handle slotted in the back.
Provenance
Collection of Michel Boy, Paris: his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 13-14 May 1905, lot 303; collection of Prof. A. Gilbert, Paris: his sale, Drouot (Lair-Dubreuil), Paris, 29 November-1 December 1927, lot 78; collection of Robert H. Tannahill, Detroit: given by him to the Institute in 1943.
Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 172.
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