Seated Virgin and Child (Virgo lactans); Christ standing on the Virgin's right knee; naked Christ; Christ holding a fruit in his right hand.
Dalton 1909: French, towards the middle of the 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: French, end of 14th century or beginning of 15th century.
Leeuwenberg 1969: France (?), last quarter of the 18th century to 1st half of the 19th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: Northern French or Flemish, 18th or 19th century (?).
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: right arm of Christ (replaced); crown (replaced).
Provenance
Collection of William Maskell (b. 1814, d. 1890); British Museum, by purchase, 1856.
Bibliography
British Museum, Guide to the Medieval Room, (London, 1907), with reproduction.
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum, (London, 1909), no. 330, pl. LXXIV.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 248, 251; II, no. 707; III, pl. CXIII.
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter, 39 (1969), pp. 111-148 (p. 139).
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