Gothic Ivories Project | Statuette (Front)

Seated Virgin and Child (Sedes Sapientiae); Christ seated on the Virgin's left knee; Christ in long robe; Virgin holding Christ's foot in her right hand; Christ pulling the front of the Virgin's veil; Christ raising his robe above his left knee.

Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Mosan, c. 1220-1230.
Saint-Omer and Paris 2013: Mosan (Liège ?), c. 1220-1230.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round. Back of the bench smooth and flat.

Object Condition
Ivory very cracked, formerly covered by thick varnish (removed in 1986). Chips above Virgin's forehead, beneath her left foot, and on the lower part of the back of her throne. Green staining on the plinth, likely due to an earlier metal stand.

Provenance
Guy Ladrière Collection, Paris (acquired in Northern France); gift of Guy Ladrière to the Museum, 12 April 1983.

Bibliography
Musée du Louvre, Nouvelles acquisitions du département des Objets d'art (Paris, 1985), no. 3.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 92.
Une renaissance. L'art entre Flandre et Champagne, 1150-1250, exhibition catalogue, Saint-Omer, Musée de l'Hôtel Sandelin, 5 April-30 June 2013 and Paris, Musée de Cluny, 17 April-15 July 2013, no. 105 (M. Gil).

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