Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; Christ in long robe; Christ pulling the back of the Virgin's veil.
Ganay 1913: France, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, late 13th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003: Paris, c. 1250.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Provenance
Collection of Emile Molinier (b. 1857, d. 1906), Paris; Durlacher, Whittingham and Joubert, London; Duveen Brothers, London: sold, 5 May 1906, to Georges Dormeuil; Dormeuil collection: Dormeuil sale, Sotheby's, Paris, 19 November 2007, lot 6.
Bibliography
Album Seymour de Ricci, Paris, 1913, pl. 41.
Exposition d'objets d'art du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance, organisée par la marquise de Ganay chez Mr Jacques Seligmann, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Hôtel de Sagan, 1913, no. 111.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 100; II, no. 69.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), fig. 97b.
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