Seated Virgin and Child (Sedes Sapientiae); Christ seated frontally; Christ seated on the Virgin's left knee; Christ in long robe; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; Virgin holding a fruit in her right hand; Virgin trampling a monster under her left foot; dragon; crown; bench.
Museum's opinion 2012: Spain (?)(Aragon or Navarre ?), c. 1200-1250.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: red, black and green (?).
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: base chipped near the Virgin's right foot.
Vertical cracks.
Provenance
Collection of Manuel Gómez-Moreno, Madrid in the 1960s (documented by a picture from the Gómez Moreno archive): purchased from him for The Cloisters Collection in 1972.
Bibliography
Medieval Art from Late Antique through Late Gothic from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago, exhibition catalogue, Moscow, State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and St Petersburg, The Hermitage, 1990, no. 61, pp. 128-129.
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