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$40,000 - $50,000
Auction House: Thomaston Place Auction Galleries
Auction Location: Thomaston, ME, USA
PO Box 300
51 Atlantic Highway
Thomaston, ME
USA
04861
Phone: 207-354-8141
Fax: 207-354-9523
Email: auction@kajav.com
Auction Title: 2009 Fall Feature Fine Art and Antique Auction, Day One
Auction Date: November 7, 2009
Description: PAIR 16TH C GILT-WOOD FIGURES - The Virgin and a Bishop or Saint, South German, Franconian, School of Tilman Riemenschneider (c 1460-1531), parcel gilt and polychromed carved wooden figures on integral molded socle, roughly 34" tall, 10" wide, 4" deep, the figures are laid to reinforcing planks shaped to their forms but becoming haloes with gilt scraffito, with custom carved 19th c solid chestnut brackets in Gothic style, 13 1/2" x 8 1/2" x 11 3/4" tall, Mary lacks both hands, Bishop is missing his staff and part of his right hand, has a repaired nose, redecorated long ago. From the estate of Anne Bigelow Stern of New York City.
