TABERNACLE WITH CHRIST AT THE COLUMN

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WORKSHOP OF GUGLIELMO DELLA PORTA (1500-1577), ROME, CIRCA 1570
TABERNACLE WITH CHRIST AT THE COLUMN
Silver figure; silver-gilt column in original ebony tabernacle with gilt-bronze and silver appliques
12 ½ in. (32 cm.) high, overall

Exhibited

New York, Mobile, Evansville and Sacramento, American Bible Society, Mobile Museum of Art, Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences and Crocker Museum of Art, Icons or Portraits? Images of Jesus and Mary from the Collection of Michael Hall, July 2002 - Jan. 2004, cat. no. 45.

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Lot Essay

The present tabernacle with the central figure of Christ at the Column is closely comparable to a relief depicting the Flagellation of Christ attributed by Rosario Coppel to the Roman sculptor and silversmith Guglielmo della Porta (R. Coppel et al., Guglielmo della Porta: A Counter-Reformation Sculptor, Coll & Cortes, Madrid, 2012, pp. 74-97). The central figure of Christ is practically identical in both, and Coppel bases the attribution on convincing comparisons with both drawings by della Porta and a series of other figures of Christ at the Column and Flagellation groups historically attributed to him.

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