CHRIST CRUCIFIED

Details

HISPANO-PHILIPPINE, LATE 16TH CENTURY
CHRIST CRUCIFIED
Ivory
Together with its ivory titulus inscribed 'INRI'
25 ¼ in. (64.2 cm.) high

Provenance

European Private Collection

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The present figure is notable as a rare sixteenth-century Hispano-Philippine carving. It closely relates to a figure of Christ documented as having been donated by Fray Juan de la Barrera to the Sacristia del Convento de San Pablo in 1585 (M. Estella, La Escultura Barroca De Marfil En Espana, Las Escuelas Europeas y Las Coloniales, 1984, cats. 239-40).

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