2 Nov 2011
13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge
Objects of the Wunderkammer including an Exceptional Private Collection of European Ivories
Back to auction 19587
Objects of the Wunderkammer including an Exceptional Private Collection of European Ivories
Back to auction 19587
A large and important late 18th / early 19th century ivory Corpus Christi
in a Baroque giltwood frame
the figure of Cristo Vivo with head turned to the right, eyes and mouth open, with finely carved teeth and tongue, wearing a crown of thorns and a rope tied perizonium, mounted in an early 18th century giltwood frame of architectural form, with a breakfront cornice below a rectangular tablet, with an ivory INRI plaque applied and a similar cornice above, the frame carved with ribbon-tied, fruiting garlands surmounted by putti masks and flanked by scrolling acanthus leaves, with a single winged putto mask below, the ivory 64cm high, the frame 126cm high x 76.5cm wide
the figure of Cristo Vivo with head turned to the right, eyes and mouth open, with finely carved teeth and tongue, wearing a crown of thorns and a rope tied perizonium, mounted in an early 18th century giltwood frame of architectural form, with a breakfront cornice below a rectangular tablet, with an ivory INRI plaque applied and a similar cornice above, the frame carved with ribbon-tied, fruiting garlands surmounted by putti masks and flanked by scrolling acanthus leaves, with a single winged putto mask below, the ivory 64cm high, the frame 126cm high x 76.5cm wide
Estimate:
£25,000 - 30,000
€29,000 - 35,000
US$ 39,000 - 47,000
€29,000 - 35,000
US$ 39,000 - 47,000
Category: Decorative Arts / European Sculpture and Works of Art
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