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Madrid, Instituto Valencia de Don Juan

Inv. I. 4844

Ivory

Height: 88mm (61mm excluding the base)
Width: 35mm
Depth: 25-28mm

Seated Virgin and Child in a long robe; Christ seated on the Virgin's left knee; Christ seated frontally; Christ in long robe.
Base: two kneeling angels holding candlesticks; kneeling figure in donor position.

Mingorance 2013: Spain (Castille-León), 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding: gold and blue (Virgin's robe), red (lining of the Virgin's cloak).

Reverse
Back of the Virgin figure carved in the round.Back of the bench and of the base flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Very damaged and worn. Numerous cracks. Large hole in the Virgin's bust. Two holes in the back of the figure and two holes in the back of the base.Missing section around the Virgin's right foot with later repairs.
Missing: part of the right hand of Christ.
The base and the seated figure are made of two different pieces of ivory.

Provenance
Collection of don Matías Martínez Burgos; acquired by the Institute in March 1933, recorded in the Libro de Adquisiciones del Instituto Valencia de Don Juan, VII, no. 327.

Bibliography
L. Mingorance Serrano, Los Marfiles Góticos del Instituto Valencia de Don Juan, unpublished MA dissertation, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), 2013, no. 2.


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© Instituto Valencia de Don Juan, Madrid - 2013.

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