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Subject
Religious.

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Paris, Musée des Arts décoratifs

Inv. GR 29

Ivory

Height: 83mm

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ standing on the Virgin's left knee; Christ in long robe; Virgin holding a book in her right hand; bench.


Koechlin Number: 0689

Koechlin 1924 and Museum's opinion 2010: France or Rhineland, 2nd half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Style of the Kremsmünster Master (Koechlin 1924)

Reverse
Carved in the round. Deep hole drilled in the upper part of the bench.

Object Condition
Missing: head of Christ (replaced).

Provenance
Collection of Alexandrine Louise Grandjean: bequeathed to the Museum in 1923.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 244; II, no. 689.


Image

© Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris. Photography: Jean Tholance.

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