European Sculpture & Works of Art 900-1900

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Lot 9
  • 9

Franconian, circa 1510-20

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Description

  • a polychrome limewood relief of a female saint
  • carved in contraposto, wearing a turban over her hair which falls in long tresses over her shoulders, her mantle carved with deep folds over her robe, later base and restoration to the polychrome and gilding

Catalogue Note

For the treatment to the drapery with its deep  staggered folds, the hair falling in long tresses, the full face with fat chin  and the turban headress compare with Swabian and Franconian  sculpture of the period.

RELATED LITERATURE
T.Müller, Bildwerke in Holz und Stein,cat. Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich 1959, nos 157, 164.