Gothic Ivories Project | Relief (appliqué) (Front)

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ in long robe; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; Christ seated on left arm; crown.

Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: France or South Netherlands, 1st decades of the 15th century (?).

Attribution
Unknown

Comments
This relief was not catalogued by Koechlin (1924), and the Virgin's fingers are unusual. Nevertheless, Gaborit-Chopin (2003) does not find sufficient cause to doubt its authenticity.

Provenance
Collection of Alexandre-Charles Sauvageot, Paris (no. 231); gift of A.-C. Sauvageot to the Museum in 1856.

Bibliography
A. Sauzay, Musée impérial du Louvre. Catalogue du musée Sauvageot (Paris, 1861), no. 231.
A. Sauzay, Musée de la Renaissance [Musée du Louvre]. Notice des ivoires (Paris, 1863), no. 9.
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 118.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 231.

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