A TERRACOTTA RELIEF OF THE VIRGIN AND CHILD

ITALIAN, PROBABLY TUSCAN, CIRCA 1430-1450

Details

A TERRACOTTA RELIEF OF THE VIRGIN AND CHILD
ITALIAN, PROBABLY TUSCAN, CIRCA 1430-1450
On a rectangular plinth base
33 in. (84 cm.) high

Provenance

Dr. James von Bleichröder, Berlin (1860-1937).
Forced sale at Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auktion-Haus, Berlin, 3 May, 1938, lot 121, pl. 25.
Frederick W. Schumacher, Columbus, Ohio.
Bequest to the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts [today the Columbus Museum of Art], Columbus, Ohio, 1957 (1957.39.4).
Restituted to the heirs in 2011.

Literature

P. R. Adams, 'Mr. Schumacher buys for Columbus', The Art News, vol. 38, no. 11 (December 16, 1939), p. 7, ill. [as style of Jacopo della Quercia].
W. R. Valentiner, The Frederick W. Schumacher Collection, privately printed, Columbus, Ohio, 1955, no. 81, p. 172 [as Florentine, and related to Michelozzo].
U. Middendorf, Journal of the Museo Civico in Ferrara [publication date unknown].

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For information on the restituted sculpture from the collection of Dr. James von Bleichröder, Berlin, please see the following lot.

The present lot comes with a thermoluminescence test showing that it was last fired between 400 and 700 years ago.

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