Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; Christ in long robe; belt; crown; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; blessing gesture.
Dalton 1909: French, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: French, 2nd half of 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: French, late 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of a gilded border along the mantle. Traces of red pigment in the veil.
Reverse
Carved in the round. Modern ink inscription: 'oλw/-' and '140'.
Object Condition
Face of the Virgin possibly recarved.
The ivory base is of a later date.
Comments
Koechlin (1924) draws some similarities between this statuette and a Virgin and Child in Musée Vivenel, Compiégne.
Provenance
Collection of William Maskell (b. 1814, d. 1890), (no. 140); British Museum, 1856, by purchase.
Bibliography
A. Schnütgen, Gothische Elfenbein Madonna im British Museum, in Zeitschrift für christliche Kunst (1893) p. 362.
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum, (London, 1909), no. 331, pl. LXXV.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 301; II, no. 845.
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