PROBABLY GERMAN, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY

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A NORTH EUROPEAN CHRISM SPOON
PROBABLY GERMAN, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY
The handle carved in full relief with figures leading to the Crucifixion of Christ, the bowl with the Entombment and Ascension inscribed with text to the border
7 in. (18 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

For a similar related German example profusely carved see Owen-Evan Thomas, Domestic Utensils of Wood, London, 1992, p. 118, fig. C.

A comparable example was sold in The Longridge Collection, Christie's, London, 11 June 2010, lot 1108 and another in the Blumka Collection; Sotheby's, New York, 9-10 January 1996, lot 62.

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