Triptych with the Coronation of the Virgin in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2010

Triptych with the Coronation of the Virgin
Ivory with gold and paint
Carved in Germany (Cologne), about 1325-1350

Accession # 17.190.211

The stylistic character of the carving is consistent with contemporary Cologne representations of the Virgin and Child in other media, namely in glass painting and sculpture in wood and stone. In this rendering of a popular composition, an angel has just crowned Mary as Queen of Heaven. With considerable original paint intact, this triptych is one of the finest examples of ivory carving from Gothic Cologne.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.