LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Details

A VERY RARE FIGURE OF THE CHRIST CHILD
LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
His blue robe with gilt trim and dragons and cranes, an aperture behind for hanging
10 ½ in. (27 cm.) high

Provenance

With Jorge Welsh, London.
The Collection of Rafi & Mildred Mottahedeh; Sotheby's, New York, 19 October 2000, lot 408.
The Collection of Basil & The Hon. Nellie Ionides, Buxted Park, Sussex; Sotheby's, London, 13 October 1964, lot 524 A.

Literature

op. cit., pp. 94, no. 4.8

Lot Essay

This rare devotional figure is said to have been from a small set made for a house in Macao, where each would have hung over a bed (see Howard & Ayers, op. cit., p. 622). Only three are known, this example, one in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and another in formerly in the Jay Dorf collection and now in the Fundacao Medeiros e Almeida, Lisbon.

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