Seated Virgin and Child; Christ in long robe; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; Christ standing in the Virgin's lap; twisting movement of Christ; Virgin holding a fruit (pear?) in her right hand; bench.
Molinier 1890: France, end of 13th century or beginning of 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, mid 14th century.
Randall 1993: French (Paris), 2nd quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: lining of the Virgin's cloak.
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: crown (replaced).
Very cracked.
Provenance
Frédéric Spitzer collection, Paris: sale, Chevallier and Mannheim, Paris, 17 April 1893, lot 79. Charles Nodet collection, Paris (in 1900): sale, Hôtel des Commissaires, Marseille, 10 March 1908. Jules Porges collection, Paris: sale, Georges Petit, Paris, 17-18 June 1924, lot 150. Joseph Brummer collection: sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, 20-23 April 1949, lot 657: bought from Raphael Stora, New York, in 1949 thanks to the Edward Drummond Libbey Endowment.
Bibliography
E. Molinier, La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1890), I, no. 44.
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 64 (in Nodet collection).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 242; II, no. 668; III, pl. CX.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 11.
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