Ivory, gilt bronze (missing base and crown).
Seated Virgin and Child; Christ in long robe; Christ standing on the Virgin's left knee; Virgin holding a bird in her right hand; belt.
Koechlin 1924: France, mid 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy.
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: crown.
Provenance
Charvet collection. Marc Antocolsky collection: sold, Paris, 10-12 June 1901, lot 65. Collection of Georges Dormeuil, Paris (in 1924): sold, Dormeuil sale, Sotheby's, Paris, 19 November 2007, lot 22; Brimo de Laroussilhe collection (M.-A. Carlier, Art Médiéval: Exposition à l'occasion du centenaire de Brimo de Laroussilhe (Paris, 2008), no. 22).
Bibliography
E. van Drival, 'L'Exposition de Lille', in Revue de l'art chrétien (1874), pl. II.
Exposition d'objets d'art du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance, organisée par la marquise de Ganay chez Mr Jacques Seligmann, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Hôtel de Sagan, 1913, no. 113, p. 58.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 242; II, no. 671.
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