BC/AD Sculpture Ancient to Modern
BC/AD Sculpture Ancient to Modern
CIRCLE OF ADAM KRAFT (1455- CIRCA 1509) | RELIEF WITH CHRIST CARRYING THE CROSS
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July 9, 02:33 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
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CIRCLE OF ADAM KRAFT (1455- CIRCA 1509)
GERMAN, FRANCONIA, EARLY 16TH CENTURY
RELIEF WITH CHRIST CARRYING THE CROSS
stone, on a modern metal stand
relief: 50 by 42cm., 19⅝ by 16½in.
base: 1 by 43cm.,⅜ by 16⅞in.
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Edouard Leonardi, Paris, sold May 1938;
Wessbecher Collection;
thence by descent;
Sotheby's London, 8 July 2005, lot 19
Compare the stone reliefs illustrating the Passion by the Nuremberg sculptor Adam Kraft and his followers in Franconia; several of Kraft's reliefs are held at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, e.g. inv. nos. Pl.O. 1819 and Pl.O. 1821.