Seated Virgin and Child (Virgo Lactans); Christ standing on the Virgin's left knee; Christ in long robe; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; brooch; belt; bench.
Longhurst 1929: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Williamson and Davies 2014: possibly English, last quarter of the 13th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Forehead of the Virgin worn.
Right foot of Christ chipped.
Comments
Underside crosshatched for attachment to a base. Single central dowel hole (now filled with a later wood plug), probably for a separately-made base. In 1872, recorded as having been on a round modern pedestal.
Provenance
Purchased in 1855, probably from John Webb (b. 1799, d. 1880), London.
Bibliography
Inventory of the Objects Acquired in the Year 1855 in Inventory of Objects in the Art Division of the Museum at South Kensington. Arranged According to the Dates of their Acquisition, Vol. I.(London, 1868), p. 67.
W. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), p. 3.
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), p. 31, pl. XXIX..
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 11.
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