A WOOD FIGURE REPRESENTING KING ARTHUR
A WOOD FIGURE REPRESENTING KING ARTHUR

19TH CENTURY

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A WOOD FIGURE REPRESENTING KING ARTHUR
19th Century
In finely-carved and detailed fruitwood, wearing armour in the style of the Innsbruck tomb figures (lacking shield, and with parts missing from the helmet and sword etc., left arm repaired), on a square base bearing the title ARTUR. KONIG VON ENGLAND and TAPIT
13in. high (excluding base)

Lot Essay

This figure is a copy of one of the life-size bronze figures that stand around the tomb intended for the Emperor Maximillian I (d. 1519) in the Hofkirche, Innsbruck. The tomb was never completed and the Emperor was actually buried at Wiener Neustadt

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