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    14 December 1999

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    • A CARVED WOOD TRIPTYCH DEPICTI
    Lot 48

    A CARVED WOOD TRIPTYCH DEPICTING THE TWELVE APOSTLES

    CIRCLE OF TILMAN RIEMENSCHNEIDER (1460-1531), 1500-1525

    Price realised

    GBP 20,700

    Estimate

    GBP 18,000 - GBP 22,000

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    A CARVED WOOD TRIPTYCH DEPICTING THE TWELVE APOSTLES
    CIRCLE OF TILMAN RIEMENSCHNEIDER (1460-1531), 1500-1525
    The reverse of each wing with traces of painting depicting, on one side , a female martyr and Saint Christopher and, on the other, a Bishop Saint and Saint Agnes; each section decorated with carved wood tracery and in a later wood frame.
    Minor damages.
    16 x 54 in. (40.6 x 137.1 cm.) the central panel
    15 x 23 in. (38.1 x 58.4 cm.) the wings, each

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
    J. Bier, Tilman Riemenschneider - His Life and Work, Kentucky, 1982.
    Wrtzburg, Mainfrnkischen Museum, Tilman Riemenschneider - Frhe Werke, 15 Sep. - 1 Nov. 1981.


    Lot Essay

    The characterful and slightly mournful expressions of the Apostles are closely comparable to the work of Tilman Riemenschneider, the master sculptor who worked extensively in Wrtzburg, See, for example, the faces of the Apostles from The Last Supper on the Altarpiece of the Holy Blood in St. Jacobskirche, Rothenburg, executed between 1499-1500 (J. Bier, op. cit., pls. 23A-J).

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