A gothic ivory relief – The Crowning of the Virgin

France, second half of the 15th century

Provenance:
Capt. John Ball Collection (?);
Sydney Edward Lucas Collection;
Ernst & Marthe Kofler-Truniger Collection, Luzern;
Galerie J.Kugel, Paris;
Henry Kravis Collection, New York.

Bibliography:
Hermann Schnitzler, Fritz Volbach, Peter Bloch. Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz - Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger. Vol. I, Luzern 1964, no. S.46, p. 19.