Master Sculpture from Four Millennia
Master Sculpture from Four Millennia
Property from the Descendants of John and Gertrude Hunt
The Master of Rimini (active circa 1410-1440)
The Three Magi
Auction Closed
July 5, 11:37 AM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
The Master of Rimini (active circa 1410-1440)
Southern Netherlandish, circa 1410-1430
The Three Magi
alabaster, with traces of gilding and polychromy
28.5 by 24cm., 11¼ by 9½in.
John Hunt (1900-1975) and Gertrude Hunt (1903-1995);
Thence by descent to the present owners
K. Woods, 'The Master of Rimini and the tradition of alabaster carving in the early fifteenth-century Netherlands', in Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, vol. 62, 2012, pp. 56-83, p. 71 and fig. 11;
K. Woods, Cut in Alabaster: A Material of Sculpture and its European Traditions, 1330-1530, London and Turnhout, 2018, pp. 116-118 and fig. 13;
S. Roller and H. Theiss (eds.), Mission Rimini: Material, Geschichte, Restaurierung, Der Rimini-Altar, Frankfurt am Main, 2021, pp. 51-53, fig. 47 and p. 64