Plaque: The Virgin and Child with Angels (c. 1320–1330): Art, History and Details

Plaque: The Virgin and Child with Angels (c. 1320–1330) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This plaque once formed the center of an ivory triptych, a devotional object consisting of three panels hinged together. While two standing angels with candlesticks flank the enthroned Virgin on either side, a third angel descends from above to crown the Virgin as Queen of Heaven.

Object facts

• Title: Plaque: The Virgin and Child with Angels
• Date: c. 1320–1330
• Culture: France, Paris, Gothic period
• Type: Ivory
• Technique: ivory, traces of paint and gilding
• Dimensions: Overall: 22.9 x 11.5 cm (9 x 4 1/2 in.)
• Collection: MED - Gothic
• Department: Medieval Art
• Accession number: 1923.719

Collection credit

Gift of J. H. Wade and Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance

Further reading listed by the museum

• "Ivory Plaque" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 10, no. 10 (December 1923): 175-192.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928.

View the collection record

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