Italian, probably Tuscan, early 15th century

the demi figure in high relief with hands crossed over His perizonium against a scrollwork ground, associated on to copper panel with foliate scrollwork border, later velvet frame 

This fine relief has been assembled from various sections of an earlier attachment. Some wear to the gilding. The outer border is composed of sixteen fragmentary thin copper sections which have been joined together. The top border above Christ's head probably reduced in size from an originally rectangular section. Pinned to a copper back board.
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Compare with two early fifteenth-century gilt copper cross terminals in the Cluny Museum, Paris, illustrated by Taburet-Delahaye. Note also the gilt copper with champlevé enamel plaque of Christ in the Cloisters illustrated by Wixom and dated to the last quarter of the fourteenth century. It follows depictions of the figure of Christ in his tomb found in Florentine painting of the period.

RELATED LITERATURE
E.Taburet-Delahaye, L'orfèvrerie Gothique au musée de Cluny, Paris 1989, nos. 79, 80; W. D. Wixom, Mirror of the Medieval World, exh. cat Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1999) no. 177