Old Master Sculpture & Works of Art
Old Master Sculpture & Works of Art
Auction Closed
December 3, 02:41 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
MOSAN-RHENISH, CIRCA 1200
CORPUS CHRISTI
bronze, with traces of gilding, with a fabric lined wood mount
Corpus: 20 by 18cm., 7⅞ by 7⅛in.
mount: 29 by 24½ by 9cm., 11⅜ by 9⅝ by 3½in.
Sotheby's London, 10 December 1992, lot 9;
private collection, Spain
Compare to a corpus with very similar perizonium, published in P. Bloch, Romanische Bronze Kruzifixe, Bronzegeräte des Mittelalters, Berlin, 1992, no IX BI.
