Inv. 969.7.5
Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; Christ in long robe; Christ pulling the back of the Virgin's veil.
Museum's opinion 2013: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of polychromy: white, blue, red.
Reverse
Carved in the round but lower relief on the back.
Hole in the middle at the back.
Object Condition
Very worn.
Missing: arms (replaced with wax).
Provenance
Collection of Edward Barry, Toulouse: his sale, Paris, 2-4 June 1880, lot 64; collection of Dr. Coyaud; collection of Dr Paul Thoby (bought in 1924; no. III in Thoby's collection): his bequest to the museum in 1969.
Bibliography
P. Thoby, carnet n° 48, Ivoires, Dossier Thoby, Archives du musée Dobrée [s.d.; handwritten], no. III.
Exposition d'art ancien au château des ducs de Bretagne, exhibition catalogue, Nantes, Château des ducs de Bretagne, June-September 1924, no. 103.
P. Thoby, 'Ivoires gothiques', in Bulletin de la Société archéologique et historique de Nantes et de Loire-Inférieure, 69 (1929), pp. 129-149.
Art et liturgie au Moyen Âge, exhibition catalogue, Angoulême, Chambéry, Caen, Nantes, Nice, December 1976-January 1978, p. 45, no. 123, pl. XI.
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