Inv. 425
Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; Christ in long robe; crown.
Rosettes in the spandrels.
Koechlin 1924: French, mid-14th century.
Stuttmann 1966 and Museum's opinion 2013: French, beginning of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on either side.
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Object Condition
Missing: right side of the canopy and part of the background, bust and head of Christ, right hand of the Virgin, parts of the base, on either side (all replaced), four pinnacles.
Deep vertical crack. Hole in the base.
Comments
The figure, the canopy, and the frame are carved out of the same piece of ivory.
Provenance
Collection of Friedrich Georg Hermann Culemann (b. 1811, d. 1886), Hannover; acquired by the city of Hannover in 1887.
Bibliography
Führer durch das Kestner-Museum, Part 2: Mittelalter und Neuzeit, ed. by C. Schuchhardt (Hannover, 1904), p. 8, no. 18, fig. 8.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 126; II, no. 158.
F. Stuttmann, Mittelalter I: Bronze, Email, Elfenbein (Hannover, 1966), no. 126, fig. 196.
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