Seated Virgin and Child; Christ standing on the Virgin's left knee; Christ in long robe.
Koechlin 1924: France, beginning of the 2nd third of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: gold (along the hems; belt), red (inside the veil), green, possibly originally blue (lining of the Virgin's cloak).
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Crown and base around the feet chipped.
Provenance
Collection of M. de Ruoltz (according to Maciet Album 325/10). Collection of Maurice Sulzbach, Paris (in 1924). Collection of Ernst and Sonya Boehlen, Bern (in 2000). Sotheby's, London, 3 July 2012, lot 28. On the art market, March 2015.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 235, 239; II, no. 639; III, pl. CVIII.
P. Williamson, Medieval sculpture and works of art. Catalogue. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, London, 1987, pp. 118-121, no. 22. tbc
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), p. 67, no. 57, pp. 72-73, no. 68, p. 137 no. 209. tbc
C. Ferment, Les Statuettes d'ivoire en Europe du Moyen Âge au XIXe siècle (Paris, 2000), p. 21, fig. II.2; p. 166.
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