European Sculpture & Works of Art 900-1900
Catalog Information: 164 lots with images
Date: 2004
Auction House:
Sotheby's
Location:
United Kingdom
Lot 1: BYZANTINE, 12TH/ 13TH CENTURY
tripod base, each side cast with a lily, the drip pan border with incised circular motifs, bronze pricket
Lot 2: f - LIMOGES, EARLY 13TH CENTURY
with applied Corpus with traces of gilding, the cross decorated with blue, green and red rosettes against a dark blue ground, mounted on red velvet in wood frame
Lot 3: BYZANTINE, 13TH/ 14TH CENTURY
within an arch standing with hands clasped in prayer looking up to Christ in Majesty above, inscribed in Greek letters, fractured (2)
Lot 4: AN OTTONIAN BOOK IVORY COVER, MEUSE OR RHINELAND, PROBABLY MIDDLE THIRD 11TH CENTURY
Carved in three registers within a foliate border, the eyes filled, traces of gilding, drilled for attachment in each corner with one corner damaged, the back scratched and collector's mark L.
Lot 5: ATTRIBUTED TO THE CIRCLE OF HANS MULTSCHER, SWABIAN, MID 15TH CENTURY
carved in the round and standing in an exaggerated S pose, crowned with her veil beneath falling to her shoulders and tenderly held by one corner by the Infant Christ in the left hand, in her right she holds an apple, later polychrome with traces of [...more]
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