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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1959.137
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Virgin and Child
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Madonna and Child
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
13th century
Culture
French?
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228559

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ivory
Technique
Carved
Dimensions
14.8 x 7.3 x 3.9 cm (5 13/16 x 2 7/8 x 1 9/16 in.)
with base: 17.9 x 7.5 x 3.9 cm (7 1/16 x 2 15/16 x 1 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: back, ink, paper, printed and handwritten: MATHIAS KOMOR / WORKS OF ART / NEW YORK / [inscribed in black ink:] N386
  • label: bottom, ink, paper, printed and handwritten: MATHIAS KOMOR / WORKS OF ART / NEW YORK

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Mathias Komor Works of Art, New York (after 1941)]. Stuart Cary Welch, by descent; to his son, Stuart Cary Welch, Jr., gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1959

Notes:

Mathias Komor did not open his business in New York until 1941.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Stuart Cary Welch, Jr. in memory of his father, Stuart Cary Welch, A.B. '17, M.Arch. '22
Accession Year
1959
Object Number
1959.137
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Richard H. Randall, Jr., The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Carvings in North American Collections, Hudson Hills Press (New York, NY, 1993), no. 8, p. 37, repr.
  • Gothic Ivories Project at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, website, Courtauld Institute of Art, 2010, http://www.gothicivories.courtauld.ac.uk/images/ivory/E789A23D_000ad4e8.html [accessed 7-7-21]

Verification Level

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