RHENISH OR MOSAN, CIRCA 1340 | CHRIST ENTHRONED

Auction Closed

July 2, 02:29 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Belgian Private Collection (Lots 22-26)

RHENISH OR MOSAN, CIRCA 1340

CHRIST ENTHRONED

oak, with remnants of gilding and polychromy

43.5cm., 17⅛in.

Please note the following amendments to the printed catalogue The present lot is offered with a Radiocarbon dating measurement report which states that the wood from the sample dates between AD 1025 and 1155 (95% confidence interval).

Private collection, Belgium

The present figure of the Seated Christ, probably from a Coronation of the Virgin, is likely to have been made in the Meuse-Rhine region under French artistic influence. Compare some of the marble figures from the High Altar of Cologne Cathedral, circa 1310-1320 (Legner, op. cit., pp. 371-374), as well as reliquary busts and an Enthroned Virgin in the Schnütgen Museum, Cologne (op. cit., nos. 72, 77 and 78).

RELATED LITERATURE

A. Legner (ed.), Rhein und Maas: Kunst und Kultur 800-1400, exh. cat. Cologne and Brussels, Cologne, 1972; U. Bergmann, Die Holzskulpturen des Mittelalters (100-1400), cat. Schnütgen Museum, Cologne, 1989, pp. 278-295