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Subject
Religious.

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Paris, Musée du Louvre

OA 7271

Ivory

Height: 165mm
Width: 85mm
Depth: 62mm (max)

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; octagonal bench.


Koechlin Number: 0078

Koechlin 1924: France, late 13th or early 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, 3rd quarter of the 13th century (1260?).


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy.

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Ivory cracked.
Missing: Virgin's left forearm, all the flowers from her crown; Christ's left forearm, Christ's torso broken and restored, right wrist cracked.

Provenance
Charles Stein collection: sold, Paris, 8-10 June 1899, lot 102. Félix Doistau collection, Paris; gift of F. Doistau, 12 June 1919.

Bibliography
G. Migeon, 'L'Exposition rétrospective de l'art français', in Revue de l'art ancien et moderne 1 (1900), p. 459.
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 62.
Les Accroissements des musées français (sous la direction d'H. Rivière), III, Le Musée du Louvre en 1920. Dons, legs et acquisitions, (Demotte, Paris-New York, 1921), pl. 47.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I p. 102; II, no. 78; III, pl. XXVII.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 102.


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