Gothic Ivories Project | Statuette (Front)

Statuette (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

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Cologne, Museum für Angewandte Kunst

Inv. B 272

Ivory

Height: 205mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ in long robe; Christ seated on left arm.

Museum's opinion 2013: France, late 13th century-early 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Missing: Christ's forearms, Virgin's right forearm, crown, upper part of the Virgin's head.

Provenance
Collection of Wilhelm Clemens (b. 1847, d. 1934), Cologne: donated with the rest of his collection to the city of Cologne in 1919-1920.

Bibliography
Die Sammlung Clemens, ed. by B. Klesse, H.-U. Haedeke and H. Griese, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Kunstgewerbemuseum, 1963, no. 97, p. 25.

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