Old Master Sculpture & Works of Art
Old Master Sculpture & Works of Art
Auction Closed
December 3, 02:41 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
ENGLISH, PROBABLY NOTTINGHAM, 15TH CENTURY
RELIEF WITH THE BEHEADING OF SAINT CATHERINE
alabaster, with traces of gilding and polychromy
44.5 by 28cm., 17⅛ by 11in.
formerly private collection, Belgium
F. Cheetham, Alabaster Images of Medieval England, Woodbridge, 2003, p. 36, no. 11, fig. 28
Francis Cheetham (op. cit. 1984 pp. 90-1 and 2003, figs. 27 and 28) has published different versions of alabaster reliefs with the Beheading of Saint Catherine; the present panel being one of four variants. One other version also shows the Saint after the beheading, the other two are frozen mid-strike, Catherine still kneeling in prayer, the sword about to come down.
RELATED LITERATURE
F. Cheetham, English Medieval Alabasters, with a Catalogue of the Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Oxford, 1984, pp. 90-91