Inv. 71.235
Seated Virgin and Child; Christ standing on the Virgin's left knee; Christ making a blessing gesture with his right hand; Virgin trampling a Virgin trampling a winged dragon (basilisk; monster) under her feet.
Koechlin 1924: France, end of the 2nd quarter of the 13th century.
Natanson 1951: French (?), c. 1230-1240.
Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: France (Paris or North France), 2nd quarter of the 13th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding: patterns along the hems.
Reverse
Carved in the round. Back unfinished. Hole in the back.
Object Condition
Missing: crown (metal); head of Christ (was originally a separate piece of ivory).
Comments
Two holes at each end of the throne and five in the back probably to attach other pieces of ivory or to attach the figure to a background.
Provenance
Henry Daguerre collection, Paris. Hector Economos collection, Paris (before 1913). Bought from Jacques Seligmann by Henry Walters in Paris in 1922; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Bibliography
Exposition d'objets d'art du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance, organisée par la marquise de Ganay chez Mr Jacques Seligmann, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Hôtel de Sagan, 1913, pl. 42.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 53; II, no. 12; III, pl. IVbis.
J. Natanson, Gothic Ivories of the 13th and 14th Centuries (London, 1951), pp. 14, 32, fig. 2.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 262.
R. Koekkoek, Gotische ivoren in het Catharijneconvent (Utrecht, 1987), fig. 5.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), p. 37, in relation to no. 7.
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