MALINES, LATE 16TH OR EARLY 17TH CENTURY

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A PARCEL-GILT ALABASTER RELIEF OF THE LAST SUPPER
MALINES, LATE 16TH OR EARLY 17TH CENTURY

Signed with a monogram in the cartouche at bottom centre; in a later ebonised wooden frame with suspension loop; the paper on the reverse inscribed in ink 'mu', and with two old labels on the reverse indistinctly inscribed '...97 osno oysn' and 'gat 195'.
Some wear to gilding; cracks.
4¾in. (12cm.) high

Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Brussels, Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Exposition de Sculptures anglaises et malinoises d'Albâtre, 28 Sept.-5 Nov. 1967, p. 61 (catalogue by G. Derveaux-Van Ussel)

Lot Essay

The scene shows the Last Supper, with Christ feeding the sop to Judas, clearly identified by the money-bag in his left hand. The monogram, which has been found on other Malines alabasters, has not been identified (Derveaux-Van Ussel, loc. cit.).

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