A GILT-COPPER REPOUSSÉ RELIEF OF ST. MARY MAGDALEN

SOUTH GERMAN, 14TH CENTURY

Details

A GILT-COPPER REPOUSSÉ RELIEF OF ST. MARY MAGDALEN
SOUTH GERMAN, 14TH CENTURY

Inscribed across the bottom 'S. MAGTALENA'; on a later velvet-covered mount.
Some wear to gilding; pierced three times around the edges; losses on both the left and right edges and above the saint's head.
6½ in. (16.5 cm.) high

Provenance

By tradition, from Aachen Cathedral.
By 1906, Professor Dr. Wilhelm von Miller, Munich.
Herr Franz Wolter.
Adolph Weinmüller, Munich, 11 December 1952, lot 682, pl. 1.
Adolph Weinmüller, Munich, 14 December 1955, lot 870, pl. 5.

Literature

Die Kunstsammlung des Kgl. Professors Dr. Wilhelm von Miller in München, Munich, 1906, p. 16, no. 111, illustrated.

Lot Essay

The fact that the word 'Magtalena' is spelled with a 'T' strongly suggests a German origin for the present piece, as was already proposed in 1906 (Die Kunstsammlung, loc. cit.). At its first appearance at auction in 1952, it was thought to be French or Spanish, 13th century, while in 1955 - on the basis of an expertise from Dr. Erich Meyer - it was called 'Italian, 14th Century'.

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