Standing Virgin and Child; naked Christ; Virgin holding Christ with both hands; Christ lying in the arms of the Virgin; crown; rectangular base plate.
Longhurst 1929: France or Flanders, 15th century.
Williamson and Davies 2014: South Netherlandish, c. 1430.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
The Virgin's crown and the top of her head have been made separately and glued on (19th-century replacements?).
Comments
Underside: two small holes for (later?) dowels; excavated trench-like cavity, possibly for a relic.
Provenance
Collection of Sir Thomas Gibson-Carmichael (b. 1859, d. 1926), London: his sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 12-13 May 1902, lot 144. Collection of George Salting, London: his bequest to the Museum in 1910.
Bibliography
'Salting Bequest (A. 70 to A. 1029-1910) / Murray Bequest (A. 1030 to A. 1096-1910)', in List of Works of Art Acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum (Department of Architecture and Sculpture), (London, 1910), p. 95.
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), pp. 42-43.
Europäische Kunst um 1400. Achte Ausstellung unter den Auspizien des Europarates, ed. by Vinzenz Oberhammer et. al., exhibition catalogue, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, 1962, no. 345 (H. Fillitz).
A. Schädler, 'Erbach im Odenwald, Elfenbeinmuseum. Ausstellung: Westeuropäische Elfenbeinarbeiten 11. bis 19. Jahrhundert aus der Staatlichen Ermitage Leningrad' (exh. review), Pantheon, XXXIII, 1975, pp. 348-50 (p. 348).
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 16.
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