Inv. 0.6.VIII
Seated Virgin and Child; Christ in long robe; Christ seated on the Virgin's left knee; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; crown; throne.
Crosshatched background; twisted columns.
Koechlin 1924: French, end of the 15th or beginning of the 16th century.
Bruges 2010: North-east France and Flanders, 2nd half of the 15th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Curved.
Provenance
Acquired by the Gruuthusemuseum in 1870.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 334; II, no. 923.
J. W. Steyaert, Late Gothic Sculpture: The Burgundian Netherlands, exhibition catalogue, Ghent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 1994, fig. 96b.
S. Vandenberghe, Ivory in Bruges: Treasures from museums, churches and monasteries, exhibition catalogue, Bruges, 2010, pp. 18-19.
S. Kemperdick, F. Lammertse, The Road to Van Eyck, exhibition catalogue, Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, 2012, p. 219, fig. 2, in relation to no. 49.
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