The present Virgin and Child is stylistically puzzling. Whilst certain elements in the carving are quite clearly 19th Century, such as her head and the carving on her chest, centred by a lozenge-shaped jewel but otherwise remarkably flatly carved, the drapery on her lower left side is much more convincing.
Recent revision and restoration by some museums of gothic sculpture acquired at the turn of the century has revealed that hitherto accepted sculptures had a much higher degree of restoration than previously believed, and that some were rebuilt around an authentic fragmentary torso. Thus the present group of the Virgin and Child could possibly have been 'restored' in the late 19th or early 20th Century around an authentic early 14th Century fragment, so resulting in the somewhat confusing style.