The pose, the traces of extensive gilding, and the broad, sweeping curves of the drapery, place the present Virgin and Child among a circle of similar objects all produced in the Cologne area, and thought to derive from the Friesentor-Madonna in the Schnütgen Museum, Cologne (op. cit., p. 104). As with many of the other Friesentor-derived figures, this group appears originally to have been extensively gilded, thereby enhancing its image as a precious, devotional object.