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A POLYCHROME AND GILT-WOOD RELIQUARY BUST OF ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA
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A POLYCHROME AND GILT-WOOD RELIQUARY BUST OF ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA
FRENCH, LATE 15TH/EARLY 16TH CENTURY
Wearing the garb of the Dominican order, truncated at the shoulders, a niche inset at her breast for a reliquary, carved in one with oval base decorated with gothic tracery, the whole supported on four lion paw feet (loss to gilding and polychrome, wood splitting, worming) ----- 24in. (61cm.) high
FRENCH, LATE 15TH/EARLY 16TH CENTURY
Wearing the garb of the Dominican order, truncated at the shoulders, a niche inset at her breast for a reliquary, carved in one with oval base decorated with gothic tracery, the whole supported on four lion paw feet (loss to gilding and polychrome, wood splitting, worming) ----- 24in. (61cm.) high