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French, circa 1300
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Sold
15,000 GBP
bidding is closed
Description
- Angel of the Annunciation
- gilt bronze, on a veined red marble base
- bronze: 16.1cm., 6 3/8 in.
base: 2.4cm., 1in.
Provenance
Christie's London, 15 December 1982, lot 23;
Sotheby's London, 10 December 1992, lot 21
Sotheby's London, 10 December 1992, lot 21
Catalogue Note
Another version of this figure was exhibited as part of the Keir Collection in the British Museum in 1981-1982 (op.cit.), there described as cast brass. It is interesting to note that a figure of St. John from the same period that was sold in these rooms on 4 July 1991, lot 25, also exists in two versions. Another version of this, presumably from the same workshop, was discovered in Sheppey, Kent.
RELATED LITERATURE
M.-M. Gauthier and G. François, Medieval enamels. Masterpieces from the Keir collection, exhib. cat. British Museum, London, 1981, no. 40, fig. 13; W. D. Wixom (ed.), Mirror of the medieval world, exhib. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1999, p. 108, no. 129