Lot 42
  • 42

Franconian, early 16th Century

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Description

  • A wood figure of St Florian
St Florian holding a bucket of water in his right hand, a house at his right foot, a later spear in his left hand

Catalogue Note

St Florian was an Austrian soldier-martyr saint who lived in the 4th Century. Part of his legend is that he miraculously put out the flames of a burning building, or in some versions of the story a whole city, with the water from a single bucket. He was a popular patron in Germany and Austria.