Lot 64
  • 64

A Spanish gilt copper and enamel applied procession cross 14th/15th century

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 EUR
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Description

  • length 44cm.
the ends engraved with busts of Mary and Saint John, and the throning God Father, applied with three oval enamel plaques, the three-nail-type corpus with crown and long apron, the reverse engraved with the Evangelist symbols; the lower end backwards enforced with a piece of iron 

Condition

Wear, scratching and stains to the gilding, extensive wear to gilding at the corpus, losses of enamel to the applied cabochons; right arm of Christ broken at the ellbow (minor related losses of material); fine crack within the metal at lower end of the waistcloth; small piece of metal at the right side of the waist to corpus missing (ca. 0.2 by 2.0cm.), very small piece of crown ornament missing; the lower end of the cross at the reverse enforced with a piece of iron (ca. 6 by 3cm.) and attached with five nails, lower end of cross broken off. Corpus and cross possibly associated.
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