Swooning Virgin supported by three Holy Women.
Leeuwenberg 1969: France (?), last quarter of the 18th century to 1st half of the 19th century.
Jones 1990: French, late 18th or early 19th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: French, 18th - 19th century.
Attribution
Master of the Agrafe Forgeries (Leeuwenberg)
Reverse
Flat, with crosshatching. Traces of plaster.Modern paper label: 'On loan from Reverend Fuller Russell, 1862'.
Object Condition
Missing: Virgin's feet and lower part of her robe.
Comments
In 14th century style.
Provenance
Collection of Reverend Fuller Russell (in 1862); Reverend E. S. Dewick (d. 1917); Reverend E. C. Dewick collection (son of Reverend E. S. Dewick); British Museum, 1918, by donation.
Bibliography
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter, 39 (1969), pp. 111-148 (fig. 10).
Fake? The Art of Deception, ed. by M. Jones, exhibition catalogue, London, British Museum, 1990, p. 190.
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