Medieval Bronze Corpus Christi

12TH-14TH CENTURY A.D.

9 in. (500 grams total, 23 cm high including stand).

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.

CONDITION

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