Gothic Ivories Project | Panel (fragment) (Front)

Virgin and Child, in bust; Virgin holding a fruit; Christ holding a book; Christ seated on left arm; Christ making a blessing gesture; Christ in long robe.

Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Italy (Naples?), 2nd third of the 14th century.

Attribution
Follower of Tino di Camaïno (Gaborit-Chopin)

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy (several layers: oldest (original?) is blue, bright red. See report by A. Cascio and J. Levy, 2002).

Object Condition
Group cut out from an ivory tablet (lower border remaining).
Ivory cracked.
Missing: crown.
Traces of glue at the top of the Virgin's head. Chip to the Virgin's forehead. Hole through the border, in the centre. Small hole in the lower part of the Virgin's coat. Scratches (for glue?) under the base.

Provenance
Said to have come from the Stiffkirche, Würzburg. Drey collection, Munich. Acquired by the Musée du Louvre in 1907.

Bibliography
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 227.

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