Seated Virgin Artist: UnknownEnglish or German, ca. 1320-40

ca. 1270–1340

European Art

On view, 1st floor, Numismatics
Medium

Ivory

Dimensions

7 1/16 × 3 5/8 × 2 1/4 in. (17.9 × 9.2 × 5.7 cm)

Credit Line

Maitland F. Griggs, B.A. 1896, Fund

Accession Number

1956.17.5

Culture

English

Period

13th–14th century

Classification

Sculpture

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Provenance
Purchased from Mathias Komor, New York City (June 12, 1956); Yale University Art Gallery (1956– )
Bibliography
  • Courtauld Institute of Art, "Gothic Ivories Project," http://gothicivories.courtauld.ac.uk/index.html (accessed 2014), http://gothicivories.courtauld.ac.uk/images/ivory/9086EB64_46fbaa68.html
  • Richard H Randall, Jr., The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Carvings in North American Collections (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1993), 37–38, no. 9, ill
  • Richard H Randall, Jr., The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1993), no. 9
  • William D. Wixom, "A Late Thirteenth-Century English Ivory Virgin," Zeitschrift fu¨r Kunstwissenschaft 50 (1987), no. 2, fig. A, B, C
  • Neil Stratford F.S.A., "Glastonbury and Two Gothic Ivories in the United States," Studies in Medieval Sculpture (1983), 208–215, fig. pl. LXXXVIa
  • Danielle Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires du Moyen Age (Fribourg: Fribourg, 1978), no. 245, fig. 245
  • Dorothy Gillerman, ed., Transformations of the Court Style: Gothic Art in Europe, 1270 to 1330, exh. cat. (Providence, R.I.: Rhode Island School of Design Museum, 1977), no. 21
  • National Gallery of Canada, Art and the Courts: France and England from 1259 to 1328, eds. Peter H. Brieger and Philippe Verdier, exh. cat. (Ottawa, Canada: National Gallery of Canada, 1972), no. 69, pl. 94
  • National Gallery of Canada, L'art et la cour: France et Angleterre 1259–1328, exh. cat. (Ottawa, Canada: National Gallery of Canada, 1972), no. 69, fig. pl. 94
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States

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