Virgin and Child in Glory

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Artist Master of the Berlin Triptych(French, c. 1325–1350)French, c. 1325–1350

CultureFrench

Titles

Virgin and Child in Glory

Datec. 1325–1350

PlaceFrance

MediumIvory

Dimensions5 1/2 × 3 1/4 × 1/2 in. (14 × 8.3 × 1.3 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Laurence H. Favrot Bequest

Object number71.7

Current Location

The Audrey Jones Beck Building

201 Reckling Gallery

On view

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Department

Arts of Europe and the Mediterranean

Object Type

SCULPTURE

ProvenanceCollection of Octave Homberg (1876–1941), Paris; Collection of Madame Homberg (widow of Octave Homberg), Paris; Collection Ernst Kofler-Truninger, Lucerne, Switzerland; purchased from E. Kofler by MFAH with funds provided by the Laurence H. Favrot Bequest, March 27, 1971.
Exhibition History"A Permanent Heritage: Major Works from the Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 23, 1980–January 4, 1981.

"Images in Ivory: Precious Objects of the Gothic Age," Detroit Institute of Arts, March 9–May 11, 1997; Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, June 22–August 31, 1997 [no. 122].

"New Light on Old Masters: European Art from Houston Collections," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 2, 2021–January 23, 2022.

Published References Koechlin Number: 0411. Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd third of the 14th century; mistakenly states this piece is in the collection of the Musée archéologique in Niort. Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964; France, c. 1320–1330. Randall 1993: German (Cologne), 3rd quarter of the 14th century. Detroit 1997: German, 1325–1350 Schnitzler, Kofler cat., no. s-67 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Bulletin, May 1972, vol. III, no. 3, J. L. Schrader, “Recent Acquisitions: A Fourteenth Century Cult Image of the Virgin Rediscovered”, pp. 26-33. W. C. Agee, and J. Patrice Marandel, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: A Guide to the Collection, Mount Vernon, 1981, p. 18, entry no. 30 by Jack L. Schrader Richard H. Randall, Jr., The Golden Age of Ivory, Gothic Carvings in North American Collections, 1993, p. 97, no. 122 Jack L. Schrader, An Ivory Plaque with the Virgin and Child in Glory, pp. 34-37, reproduced on pp. 26, 30, 34, and cover The Courtauld Institute of Art Gothic Ivories Project 2008-2011, Prof. John Lowden and Dr. Catherine Yvard. The Gothic Ivories Project is an online database of ivory sculptures made in Western Europe c. 1200–c.1530 and neo-Gothic ivory pieces. http://www.gothicivories.courtauld.ac.uk/

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