Gothic Ivories Project | Statuette (Side)

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ standing on the Virgin's left knee; Christ in long robe; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; crown; bench.

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Eastern France, early 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy.

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: left hand of Christ.
The right hand of the Virgin and of Christ are broken and were glued back into place. Large central hole at the back of the throne.

Provenance
Collection of Charles Piet-Lataudrie, Paris; bequest of Piet-Lataudrie, 1909.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 244; II, no. 678; III, pl. CX.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 272.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 181.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 9.

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