With flat-topped crown, hair hanging in hanks to the shoulders, long D-shaped face with domed eyes, slender figure with ribs emphasised, knee-length loincloth falling in rippling folds; mounted on a custom-made stand.

PROVENANCE:
Former collection of the late (d.1955) Bishop of Tournus.

This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.12040-211844.

LITERATURE:
Cf. Zarnecki, G., Holt, J. & Holland, T., English Romanesque Art 1066-1200, London, 1984, item 236, for type.