BC/AD Sculpture Ancient to Modern
BC/AD Sculpture Ancient to Modern
Property from the Collection of the late Sir Peter Moores CBE DL (1932-2016)
SOUTHERN NETHERLANDISH, ANTWERP, LATE 15TH CENTURY | MARY MAGDALENE
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July 9, 02:26 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Property from the Collection of the late Sir Peter Moores CBE DL (1932-2016)
SOUTHERN NETHERLANDISH, ANTWERP, LATE 15TH CENTURY
MARY MAGDALENE
oak
29 by 25cm., 11⅜ by 9⅞in.
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Christie's London, 13 November 2003, lot 217
The figure of Mary Magdalene in the present relief is ostentatiously dressed, depicted in this manner to highlight her worldliness and vanity. A common type on Antwerp retables, the present relief is exceptionally elaborate, showing an array of different textures and details. Compare to a Mary Magdalene with similar headdress in the Brussels' Royal Museums for Art and History (inv. no. V 327, op. cit. no 89), and a group of similarly elaborately dressed spectators at the Crucifixion in the same museum (inv. no. 8653).
RELATED LITERATURE
A. Huysmans, La sculpture des Pays-Bas méridionaux et de la Principauté de Liège - XVe et XVIe siècles, cat. Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels, 2000, no. 89 and 99
A Radiocarbon Dating Measurement Report prepard by Jill Walker for RCD Lockinge (sample taken November 2019) states that the wood from the sample dates between AD 1304 and 1365 or 1383 and 1415 (95% confidence interval).