Gothic Ivories Project | Relief (appliqué) (Front)

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ sitting on the Virgin's left knee; Christ in long robe; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy.

Object Condition
Ivory cracked, browned.
The group appears to have been recut at the base and at the Virgin's left elbow.
Traces of scratching for glue around the crown mount on the Virgin's head, possibly for a modern metal crown.Veil of the Virgin, shoulder and hair of Christ recut. Several chips.
Hole in the base; three holes in the body of the Virgin (modern). See unpublished report by A. Cascio and J. Levy, 1995.

Provenance
Collection of Louis-Charles Timbal, Paris (no. 44); acquired from him by the Musée du Louvre in 1882.

Bibliography
E. Molinier, Catalogue des ivoires. Musée national du Louvre (Paris, 1896), no. 44.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 139.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 8.

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