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LOT 0357
Medieval Limestone Saint Peter from a Retable
SOUTH GERMANY, LATE 14TH-15TH CENTURY A.D.
16 in. (7.55 kg, 40.5 cm).
Carved in the round, seated on a chair with dorsal pillar; wearing a tunic and scapular, and with a cowl to the shoulders; sandaled feet on the rectangular base; right hand supporting an object (absent), exaggerated left hand holding the shaft of a symbol (cross?). [No Reserve]
ProvenanceSotheby's, New York, USA, 27 January 2011, no.394.
Ex central London, UK, gallery.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12831-240244.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Cf. similar image in MET inv.no. 64.312, in Wixom, W., Medieval Sculpture at the Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of art Bulletin, volume XLVI, 1988-1989, p.25.
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