Seated Virgin and Child (Virgo Lactans); throne under a canopy; two angels holding the curtains.
Crosshatched background; twisted columns; foliated border. Inscription: 'AVE MARIA'.
Koechlin 1912 and Koechlin 1924: France, late 15th or early 16th century.
Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: Probably Northern France, c. 1450.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Curved.
Provenance
Collection L. Marchant. Collection of Émile Baboin, Lyon (at least 1912-1924). Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (in 1964).
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Ivoires gothiques: Collection Emile Baboin (Lyon, 1912), no. 31.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 334; II, no. 927; III, pl. CLXI.
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.131 (mirror image), p. 35.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, pp. 603-4, in relation to no. 183.
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