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Statuette (Side (right))

Statuette (Side (right))
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Subject
Religious.

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Cologne, Museum Schnütgen

Inv. B 108

Ivory

Height: 170mm
Width: 45mm
Depth: 40mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ in long robe; Christ on left arm; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; Child pulling the front of the Virgin's veil; crown.


Koechlin Number: 0658

Koechlin 1924: France or Germany, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2013: Paris, 2nd quarter of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy.

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Crown of the Virgin chipped.
Missing: part of the stem of flowers originally held by the Virgin; Christ's left foot.
Chipped around the base.

Provenance
In the collection of the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in 1924.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 240, 252; II, no. 658.


Image

Foto: © Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln.

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