Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: gold (lining and front of Christ's tunic, patterned borders of the Virgin's mantle, hair, wooden moulding at the base, ivory moulding at the bottom), blue (the Virgin's mantle and veil), red (lips).

Reverse
Carved in the round. Back of the base flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Missing: crowns (both the Virgin and Child have truncated cylinders on their heads).
Head of Virgin has been broken off at the neck and repaired.
Base is damaged at the back corner.
Two sides of the pedestal have been made (or repaired) from a separate piece of ivory, held in place by two nails at the bottom.

Comments
The ivory moulding at the bottom is made from a separate base plate. A wooden moulding extends over three faces of the base (rest missing).

Provenance
In the possession of John Webb (b. 1799, d. 1880), London, by 1862: purchased from him by the Museum in 1867.

Bibliography
Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Works of Art of the Mediaeval, Renaissance, and more recent periods on loan at the South Kensington Museum, June 1862..., revised edition, exhibition catalogue (London, 1863), no. 106.
Inventory of the Objects in the Art Division of the Museum at South Kensington, arranged according to the dates of their acquisition (London, 1868), I, p. 12.
W. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), p. 79.
A. Venturi, Storia dell'Arte Italiana, 11 vols (Milan, 1901-1939), IV, p. 888.
W. Griggs, Portfolio of Ivories [London, 1904-1907], pt. XXIII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 253.
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), p. 59.
J. Pope-Hennessy, assisted by R. Lightbown, Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum, 3 vols (London, 1964), p. 636.
H.-W. Kruft, 'Die Madonna von Trapani und ihre Kopien. Studien zur Madonnen-Typologie und zum Begriff der Kopie in der sizilianischen Skulptur des Quattrocento' in Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Instituts in Florenz 14 (1970), pp. 297-322 (p. 320, note 63).
M. A. Franco Mata, 'Tres Copias de la 'Madonna di Trapani' en el Museo 'Camón Aznar'', in Boletín del Museo e Instituto Camón Aznar, XXIV (1986), p. 12. fig. 17.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 18.