A substantial carved wooden panel with figures in high-relief against a field of vegetation; recumbent Christ with his head supported in the lap of Mary assisted by a standing John the Evangelist while long-haired Saint Mary Magdalen advances with a vessel of balm for anointing the Corpus Christi; from the workshop of Tilman Riemenschneider (1460-1531 A.D.); the panel has been provided with a moulded wood plinth of modern date at the base. [No Reserve]

PROVENANCE:
Private collection of Von Hertlein, Munich, Germany, before 1930.
Swiss private collection, Zurich.
Inherited from her grandmother who owned it for at least 40 years.
Accompanied by a copy of the relevant Tilmann Riemenschneider Die Reifen Werke, book pages where it was published in 1930.
Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate no.11239-189576.

PUBLISHED:
Dr. Bier, J., Tilmann Riemenschneider Die Reifen Werke, G.M.B.H., Augsburg, 1930, p.155.

LITERATURE:
See Maidbronn, in Von Freeden, M.H., Tilman Riemenschneider: Die Beweinung in Maidbronn. Eine Einführung, Berlin, 1947 (Stuttgart 1956); Tönnies, E., Leben und Werke des Würzburger Bildschnitzers Tilman Riemenschneider, 1468-1531, Strassburg, 1900; Bier, J., Tilman Riemenschneider: His life and Work, Lexington, 1982, fig.46A.