A PARCEL-GILT POLYCHROME CARVED WOODEN FIGURE, PROBABLY ST. ROCH

SIENESE, 15TH CENTURY

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A PARCEL-GILT POLYCHROME CARVED WOODEN FIGURE, PROBABLY ST. ROCH
SIENESE, 15TH CENTURY
On an octagonal plinth with coat of arms on the front and an associated square wooden plinth; the shorts made of sized linen.
The polychromy refreshed and areas distressed; cracks; repairs; several fingers lacking.
65 in. (165.8 cm.) high

Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
E. Carli, Gli Scultori Senesi, Milan, 1980, p. 159, figs. 183-184.

Lot Essay

The somewhat mannered, almost dance-like, quality of this figure is characteristic of Sienese sculpture of the fifteenth century, and can be compared to such works as the wooden Annunciate Virgin and St. Gabriel by Jacopo della Quercia (illustrated in Carli, loc. cit.). Although difficult to say with certainty, the present figure probably represents St. Roch.

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