Inv. F 2919
Seated Virgin and Child; crown; throne; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; Christ sitting on the Virgin's left knee.
Pierced trefoils and quatrefoils in the gable.
Kube 1925: French, 14th century.
Erbach 1993: French, last quarter of the 13th century.
Kryzhanovskaya 2014: Northern France, 2nd half of the 13th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on either side.
Polychromy - Gilding
Outline of a painted arch and tracery on the back
Reverse
Flat and smooth except along the left, right and lower edges which have some crosshatching. Outline of a painted arch and tracery.
Object Condition
Missing: forearm of the Virgin; one of Christ's fingers; pinnacles (which were slotted into holes; crosshatching on the upper surface of the central projection).
Crosshatching and hole on the underside for attachment onto a base.
Provenance
Acquired in 1886 in Vienna by the Stieglitz Museum of Applied Arts (no. 6735), Saint Petersburg; transferred to the Hermitage in 1926.
Bibliography
A. N. Kube, Reznaia kost'. Katalog [Ivory Carvings Catalogue Hermitage], (Leningrad [Saint-Petersburg], 1925), no. 69.
Christliche westeuropäische Elfenbeinkunst 13.-18. Jahrhundert aus der Eremitage Sankt Petersburg, exhibition catalogue, Erbach, Deutschen Elfenbeinmuseum, 6 April 1993 -6 January 1994, no. 1.
M. Y. Kryzhanovskaya, Ein gotisches Elfenbeinrelief in Darmstadt und das Problem der Lokalisierung, in Kunstin Hessen und am Mittelrhein, 34 (1994), S. 7-8.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), p. 280.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Peterburg, 2014), no. 62.
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