Currently not on view
Virgin and Child,
ca. 1220–-30
German
y1949-120
The original use of this object is unclear and its function may have changed over time. The ivory has a hole in the bottom, as if it had been used as the crowning ornament on a reliquary. Its diminutive size also would have made it an ideal portable devotional object, to be carried on one's person. The details of the heads have been worn down, as if they had been handled or kissed.
Information
Title
Virgin and Child
Dates
ca. 1220–-30
Medium
Ivory
Dimensions
5.5 × 4 × 4 cm (2 3/16 × 1 9/16 × 1 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, gift of Gordon McCormick, Class of 1917
Object Number
y1949-120
Culture
Type
Materials
Joseph Brummer; purchased by Princeton University Art Museum at Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Part Two of the Notable Art Collection belonging to the Estate of the Late Joseph Brummer, May 11-14, 1949, no. 290.
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Parke-Bernet Galleries. 1949. Part II of the notable art collection belonging to the estate of the late Joseph Brummer, sale code 1069. 11-15 May 1949, New York.
, no. 290 - Kurt Weitzmann, "A late romanesque ivory Virgin", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 10, no. 2 (1951): p. 2-6., figs. 1-2, p. 3 (illus.)
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"Loans extended by the Art Museum", Record of The Art Museum, Princeton University 29, no. 1, (1970).
, p. 29 (illus.) - Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. Jones, Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 56 (illus.)
- Archer St. Clair, Elizabeth Parker McLachlan, The carver's art, Medieval sculpture in ivory, bone, and horn, (New Brunswick: Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, 1989)., cat. no. 73
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), 172 (illus.)
