MALINES, EARLY 16TH CENTURY

Details

A parcel-gilt and polychrome carved wood figure of St. Catherine
Malines, early 16th Century
On an integrally carved naturalistic base, the reverse simply finished and with a paper label inscribed 9.
37cm. high

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Lot Essay

A similar Malines wood figure of St. Catherine is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. For that example and other Malines wood figures see J. Leeuwenberg and W. Halsema-Kubes, Beeldhouwkunst in het Rijksmuseum - catalogus, Amsterdam, 1973, nos. 167A, 169-171, 174, pp. 148-150, 152.

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