Seated Virgin and Child (Sedes Sapientiae); Christ seated on the Virgin's left knee; Christ in long robe; Christ seated frontally; bench; cushion.
New York 1970: Northern France (?), 1180-1190.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in lower relief on the back. The back of the bench is hollow, possibly to accommodate a relic.
Object Condition
Very cracked.
Missing: head of the Virgin; head of Christ (both later replacements).
Comments
The broken head of the Virgin has been given a different museum number (Inv. MG 017), as well as the head of Christ (Inv. MG 016).
Provenance
Collection of John Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), New York; sold to French and Company, New York, in 1951. Collection of Thomas J. Flannery, Jr, Wilmette (Illinois), purchased in New York a few years prior to 1959; collection of John Hunt (b. 1900, d. 1976) and Gertrude Hunt (b. 1903, d. 1975), Limerick (by 1959); now part of the Hunt Museum which opened in 1997.
Bibliography
The Year 1200, A Centennial Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, exhibition catalogue, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970, no. 54.
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