A CASTELLI DOCUMENTARY CIRCULAR PLAQUE painted by Francesco Antonio Saverio Grue with the miracle of the crab bringing the crucifix to St. Francis Xavier of Pamplona, St. Francis kneeling to receive the crucifix and his two companions, one Fausto Rodriguez, standing behind him in astonishment before distant buildings, a ship at anchor and mountains, in the foreground a rock with the initials DR/F.A.X.G/S partly indistinct within a manganese, ochre and blue rim, early 18th century, in a circular giltwood frame

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A CASTELLI DOCUMENTARY CIRCULAR PLAQUE painted by Francesco Antonio Saverio Grue with the miracle of the crab bringing the crucifix to St. Francis Xavier of Pamplona, St. Francis kneeling to receive the crucifix and his two companions, one Fausto Rodriguez, standing behind him in astonishment before distant buildings, a ship at anchor and mountains, in the foreground a rock with the initials DR/F.A.X.G/S partly indistinct within a manganese, ochre and blue rim, early 18th century, in a circular giltwood frame
the plaque 21cm. diam.

Lot Essay

A pair of plaques by the same hand are in the Pfleuger Collection illustrated by Hugo Morley-Fletcher, The Pfleuger Collection, vol. II, p. 94; a signed plaque was sold by Sotheby's, 17 March 1987, lot 23; and another sold in these ROoms, 26 March 1984, lot 120

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