Coronation of the Virgin; seated Virgin and Child; two angels crowning the Virgin; naked Christ; Christ standing on the Virgin's right knee.
Museum's opinion 2011: Northern Netherlands, 1450-1500.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Back of ivory hidden by the mount. Reverse of mount: inscription, 'IHS', inscribed with three nails and a flower with four petals, with one petal attached to the H in 'IHS'; foliated decoration.
Object Condition
Missing: crown of the Virgin; hands of the two angels holding the crown; left forearm of the Virgin.
Comments
Metal links above and below the pendant, presumably to be inserted into a larger chain.
Provenance
Sotheby's, London, European Sculpture and Works of Art Sale, 7 December 1989, lot 250. Blumka Gallery, New York: purchased for The Cloisters Collection in 1991.
Bibliography
Mirror of the Medieval World, exhibition catalogue, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1999, no. 250, pp. 206-207.
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