This seated Virgin holds a lily-scepter in her proper left hand and supports the Christ Child with her right. She wears a belted gown under an open mantle, the edges of which are decorated with cavities that would have held jewels made from colored glass. The Christ Child stands on her lap, raising his proper left hand in blessing. The head of the Virgin, her garments, and the execution of her drapery are all consistent with examples of the present subject that were carved in Northern France during the first half of the 14th century.
While many of the Virgin and Child groups produced in France in the Gothic period possess more familial and tender poses, the front-facing and slightly formal postures of the figures in this group, and especially of the Christ Child, who stands in his mother’s lap, evoke the sedes sapientiae, or Throne of Wisdom, a representation of the Virgin and Child typical of the Romanesque period. More on this Sculpture
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