Inv. F 3222
Standing Virgin and Child; Christ holding a bird with both hands; Christ in long robe; Christ seated on left arm; crown.
Kryzhanovskaya 2014: 19th century (?).
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding.
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
The left side of the Virgin's figure and her right hand broke off and were glued back into place. Several vertical cracks. Minor damages on the reverse.
Provenance
Acquired in 1877 from Baissel in Aachen, for the Stieglitz Museum of Applied Arts, Saint Petersburg; transferred to the Hermitage in 1926.
Bibliography
Zapadnoevropeiskoe prikladnoe iskusstvo XI-XX vekov iz fondov Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha, exhibition catalogue, Minsk, 1989, no. 6.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Petersburg, 2014), no. 198.
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