Pendant with the Coronation of the Virgin in the Cloisters, October 2017

Pendant with the Coronation of the Virgin

Date:1450–1500

Culture:North Netherlandish

Medium:Ivory, silver gilt mount

Dimensions:1 3/4 x 3/8 in. (4.4 x 0.9 cm)

Classification:Ivories

Credit Line:The Cloisters Collection, 1991

Accession Number:1991.97

The iconography of this roundel pendant of the Virgin Mary holding the Christ Child while being crowned by two angels refers both to the Virgin's role as the Queen of Heaven and to the Immaculate Conception. While the style is analogous to that of several examples of larger-scale sculpture variously attributed to Hainaut, Brabant, or Gelderland, the composition suggests an awareness of contemporary engraving on the subject--notably that by Wenzel von Olmütz, which is a copy in reverse of an engraving by the Master LCZ.


Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/469932