Renaissance Gold and Enamelled Crucifix Pendant

SPAIN, 16TH CENTURY A.D.

3 in. (8.56 grams, 75 mm).

The limp body of Christ hanging from the cross, wearing an enamelled loincloth, the bones of Adam at his feet; above his head a plaque mocking the saviour, hung by Pilate with the initials ‘INRI’, an abbreviation of the Latin ‘Iēsus Nazarēnus, Rēx Iūdaeōrum’, translating as 'Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Jews’; carefully rendered three-dimensional cross imitating the grain, knots and stumps of the wood, a baroque pearl suspended from both arms and the base of the cross.

Provenance

Acquired on the European art market.

This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.13402-257995.

Literature

See a similar example sold by Sotheby’s, London, European Sculpture & Works of Art, 4th December 2013, Lot 58.

CONDITION

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LOT 0372