Inv. 1487
Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; Christ in long robe; Virgin holding a book; Christ touching the back of the Virgin's veil.
Koechlin 1924: France, end of the 13th century.
Camps Cazorla 1949-1950: French, early 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: right hand of the Virgin, head and left arm and shoulder of Christ (all later replacements).
The face of Christ may be modern (Koechlin 1924).
Comments
Traces of glue on the bottom.
Provenance
Collection of Maurice Sulzbach (b. 1853, d. 1922), Paris (in 1924). In the Museo Lázaro Galdiano by 1949.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 100; II, no. 68.
E. Camps Cazorla, Inventario del Museo Lázaro Galdiano (1949-1950, unpublished).
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