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Statuette (Front)

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Subject
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Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum

Inv. Pl.O. 366

Ivory

Height: 184mm
Width: 80mm
Depth: 60mm

Seated Virgin and Child; Christ standing on the Virgin's left knee; Christ in long robe; belt; bench.

Stafski 1965: Northern France, c. 1300.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding: red (lining), gold (coat).

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: head and right hand of the Virgin; head, right forearm and left hand of of Christ.
Cracks in the base and in the drapery.

Provenance
Acquired from a Nuremberg patrician before 1890; part of the original collection of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg.

Bibliography
H. Bösch, Katalog der im germanischen Museum befindlichen Originalskulpturen (Nuremberg, 1890), no. 44.
H. Bösch, Katalog der im germanischen Museum befindlichen Originalskulpturen (Nuremberg, 1890), no. 44.
W. Josephi, Kataloge des Germanischen Nationalmuseums Nürnberg. Die Werke plastischer Kunst (Nuremberg, 1910), no. 633.
W. Josephi, Kataloge des Germanischen Nationalmuseums Nürnberg. Die Werke plastischer Kunst (Nuremberg, 1910), no. 633.
H. Stafski, Kataloge des Germanischen Nationaslmuseums Nürnberg. Die mittelalterlichen Bildwerke, Pt. 1. Die Bildwerke in Stein, Holz, Ton und Elfenbein bis um 1450 (Nuremberg, 1965), pp. 244-245, no. 221.
Mittelalter. Kunst und Kultur von der Spätantike bis zum 15. Jahrhundert (Die Schausammlungen des Germanischen Nationalmuseums, pt. 2), ed. by U. G. Großmann (Nuremberg, 2007), p. 405, no. 215, fig. 384.


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