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MOSAN-RHENISH, CIRCA 1200 | CORPUS CHRISTI

Auction Closed

December 3, 02:41 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

MOSAN-RHENISH, CIRCA 1200

CORPUS CHRISTI


bronze, with traces of gilding, with a fabric lined wood mount

Corpus: 20 by 18cm., 7⅞ by 7⅛in.

mount: 29 by 24½ by 9cm., 11⅜ by 9⅝ by 3½in.

Sotheby's London, 10 December 1992, lot 9;

private collection, Spain

Compare to a corpus with very similar perizonium, published in P. Bloch, Romanische Bronze Kruzifixe, Bronzegeräte des Mittelalters, Berlin, 1992, no IX BI.