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Manner of Gregor Erhart (German, 1470–1540) A German polychrome decorated limewood figure of the Christ Child probably 16th century with later decoration image 1

Manner of Gregor Erhart (German, 1470–1540) A German polychrome decorated limewood figure of the Christ Child probably 16th century with later decoration image 2

Lot 6

Manner of Gregor Erhart (German, 1470–1540) A German polychrome decorated limewood figure of the Christ Child
probably 16th century with later decoration

Europe - Defining Style

9 July 2015, 14:00 BST

London, New Bond Street

£5,000 - £8,000

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Manner of Gregor Erhart (German, 1470–1540) A German polychrome decorated limewood figure of the Christ Child

probably 16th century with later decoration
the standing figure holding a bunch of grapes in his left hand, a single grape held between the thumb and finger of his right hand, raised on an integral shaped base, 64cm high (25in high).

Footnotes

For a comparable see Gregor Erhart's Christ Child in the Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg.
Literature:
M. Baxandall, The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany, Yale University Press, London, 1980.

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