Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: stars on the swaddles, patterns on the sheets, traces on the cloak of the Virgin.

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Base chipped near the Virgin's left foot.

Provenance
Collection of Michel Boy, Paris: his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 13-14 May 1905, lot 285, with reproduction. Collection of Édouard Guilhou: sold before 19 March 1908 to J. Seligmann, Paris. Collection of Georges Hoentschel (b. 1855, d. 1915), Paris (in 1911). Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan, London and New York; estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.

Bibliography
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 91, illus. p. 12.
A. Pératé, Collections Georges Hoentschel. Ivoires, orfèvrerie religieuse, pierres (Paris, 1911), vol. I. no. 26, pl. XXII.
Guide to the loan exhibition of the J. Pierpont Morgan collection, exhibition catalogue, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1914, p. 30.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 247; II, no. 701; III, pl. CXIII.
The Pierpont Morgan wing: a handbook by Joseph Breck and Meyric Rogers (New York, 1929), 2nd ed., p. 114.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), p. 204.
Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. by Peter Barnet, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 1997, pp. 87-88.
P. Keller, Die Wiege des Christuskindes: Ein Haushaltsgerät in Kunst und Kult (Worms, 1998), p. 220, no. B6.
Krone und Schleier : Kunst aus mittelalterlichen Frauenklöstern, exhibition catalogue, Bonn, Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, and Essen, Ruhrlandmuseum, 2005, no. 381, p. 455 (C. T. Little)(with ill.).