Gothic Ivories Project | Statuette (Front)

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; Christ in long robe; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; crown.

Koechlin 1924: France, mid-14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, 1st third of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy (2 layers, oldest is gold, red, blue. See report by A. Cascio and J. Levy, 1995).

Reverse
Flat below the waist (originally carved in the round).

Object Condition
Ivory cracked.
Chips on the forehead and crown of the Virgin, on her right hand and the flower she is holding, on the hands of Christ and the object he held. At the rear, from the torso up, the object has been greatly recut and restored, likely after damage. Modern holes to allow the object to be attached to a modern wooden stand (removed in 1995).

Provenance
Charles-Jules Maciet collection, Paris; gift of C.-J. Maciet to the Musée du Louvre in 1894.

Bibliography
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 65.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 240; II, no. 655.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 137.

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