The Virgin and Child in Glory
CultureFrench
Dateca. 1325-1350
MediumIvory
DimensionsOverall: 6 3/4 × 4 1/4 inches (17.15 × 10.8 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number51-11
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DescriptionLeft half of diptych. Scene under single Gothic arch. Angels swinging censors each corner above arch. Madonna and Child in center. Madonna receiving crown from flying angel. Angle, holding chalice, each side of Madonna.Gallery LabelThis ivory plaque was used as a small-scale, private, devotional object by royalty, aristocracy, and clergy. The plaque is the left leaf of a diptych, or two-panel object, depicting the Madonna and Child, a frequent subject for ivory diptychs. Here, the Christ Child holds an apple, symbolic of man's Original Sin. The Virgin is framed by the detailed wings of the angels who flank her, and another angel crowns the Virgin from beneath a trefoil arch. Most of the ivory plaques carved in northern France were of imported African ivory.
Émile Baboin (1860-1955), Lyons, France;
E. Poehl, by March 13, 1951;
Purchased from Poehl, through R. Stora and Co., by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1951 [1].
NOTES:
[1] Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Raphael Stora Art Galleries Stock Sheets, box 1, folder 3.
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