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She supports the Christ-child, also dressed in loose robes, on her left knee with her left hand on His left shoulder. The sculpture was originally completely gilded and there are considerable remains of the gilding still visible where the later overpainting has been rubbed away. There is a channel inside the bench and is it possible that the state was originally made to contain a relic. \r\n\r\nThe statue dates from the thirteenth century and owes a stylistic debt to French sculpture which influenced work across Northern Europe.","physicalDescription":"Statuette, boxwood, originally gilded. The Virgin in loose robes is seated on a bench, her head turned very slightly to the right, her eyes looking down. With her left hand she supports the child, also in a long loose robe, who is seated on her left knee. The whole figure has been gilded (original) and later over painted (red and black paint?) Both the over-painting and the gilding have worn away. The Virgin's right hand and both hands of the child have broken off and also the Virgin's veil to the left and a large splinter from the base.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"boxwood","id":"AAT12002"}],"techniques":[{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"},{"text":"gilded","id":"AAT53789"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Boxwood","categories":[{"text":"Sculpture","id":"THES48896"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"SCP","id":"THES48600"},"images":["2010EJ4990","2010EJ4991","2017JT8983"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"27 (VA)","id":"THES49835"},"free":"","case":"CA1","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Statuette Virgin and Child","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"France","id":"x28849"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"Northern France or Mosan"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1240-70","earliest":"1240-01-01","latest":"1270-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Purchased with funds from the bequest of Francis Reubell Bryan","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"19.7","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Bought from Sydney Burney for £125.\n\nHistorical significance: The influence of French sculpture spread throughout Northern Europe in the first half of the thirteenth century. Many Mosan wood sculptures owe a considerably stylistic debt to French prototypes.","historicalContext":"The precious gilded appearance of the statuette, together with its likely function as a reliquary, suggests an affinity with contemporary Mosan goldsmiths' work, and indeed the soft folds of the drapery recall the treatment of cloth on gilt bronze and copper figures of the first half of the thirteenth century.","briefDescription":"Statuette, boxwood, Virgin and Child, France, 13th cent","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Kosegarten, A, 'Inkanabeln der gotischen Kleinplastick in Hartholz' in <u>Pantheon</u>, XXII, 1964, pp. 302-321, fig. 15 and p. 312"},{"reference":{"text":"Williamson, Paul and Evelyn, P. <i>Northern Gothic Sculpture 1200-1450</i>. 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