Gothic Ivories Project | Statuette (Front)

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ in long robe; Christ sitting on the Virgin's left knee; Christ making a blessing gesture with his right hand; Virgin trampling on a monster under her left foot; bench.

Koechlin 1924: France, late 13th or early 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, c. 1260-c. 1280 and 19th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of original polychromy under a later layer.

Object Condition
Virgin's head broken and recut, right shoulder and part of the veil of the Virgin recut (19th century); right hand of the Virgin and left hand of Christ remade. Mark for attaching a later crown on the head of the Virgin.

Provenance
Louis-Charles Timbal collection, Paris (no. 42); acquired by the Musée du Louvre in 1882.

Bibliography
L. Courajod, E. Molinier, Musées nationaux. Catalogue de la collection Timbal (Paris, 1882), no. 42.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 103; II, no. 90.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 107.

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