Master Sculpture from Four Millennia
Master Sculpture from Four Millennia
Important Medieval Works of Art From the Collection of the Late Ernst Boehlen
French, Limoges, circa 1220-1250
Crozier Head with Christ and Mary Magdalene (Noli Me Tangere)
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150,000 - 250,000 GBP
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Important Medieval Works of Art From the Collection of the Late Ernst Boehlen
French, Limoges, circa 1220-1250
Crozier Head with Christ and Mary Magdalene (Noli Me Tangere)
gilt and champlevé enamelled copper
30.5cm., 12in.
Victor Martin Le Roy (1842-1918), Paris;
Thence by inheritance to J.J. Marquet de Vasselot (1871-1946), Neuilly sur Seine;
Thence by descent until 1991;
With Alain Moatti, Paris, 1993;
From whom acquired by Dr Ernst Boehlen, Bern
G. Migeon, La collection de Martin Le Roy, Paris, 1902, p. 19;
J.J. Marquet de Vasselot, Catalogue raisonné de la collection Martin Le Roy, Paris, 1906, vol. I, no. 35, pl. XXV;
W. Burger, Abendländische Schmelzarbeiten, Berlin, 1930, pp. 120-121, fig. 71;
J.J. Marquet de Vasselot, Les crosses limousines du XIIIe siècle, Paris, 1941, p. 231, no. 62, pl. XII
Paris, Petit Palais, Exposition Universelle, 1900, cat. no. 2441 (and 2575)
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