Gothic Ivories Project | Statuette (Front)

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ standing on the Virgin's left knee; naked Christ; crown; bench.

Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: England?, 1st half of the 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy.

Reverse
Back of the seat flattened and now smooth.

Object Condition
Missing: crown decoration.
Ivory base added later.

Comments
The style of this piece is reminiscent of that of English alabasters (Gaborit-Chopin 2003).

Provenance
Collection of Baron Jean-Charles Davillier, Paris (no. 35); bequest of J.-C. Davillier, 1883.

Bibliography
L. Courajod, E. Molinier, Donation du baron Charles Davillier. Catalogue des objets exposés au musée du Louvre (Paris, 1885), no. 35.
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 128.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 233.

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