A Gothic Madonna of Ears, South German, c. 1480-1500
Mary standing with long hair, her hands folded in prayer, her blue painted robe decorated with gilded wheat ears, gilded rays on the neck and sleeve hem, carved limewood, hollowed out on the back, polychrome painted and gilded, height 90 cm, age-related damage, (MC)
Provenance:
Upper Austrian private collection, purchased from Kunsthandel Senger Bamberg in 2006, an expertise by Walter Senger is available.
Literature:
Theodor Müller, Die Bildwerke in Holz, Ton und Stein, München 1959, S. 40f., our sculpture is comparable to this Madonna of Ears from south-east Bavaria from around 1490.
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Mary standing with long hair, her hands folded in prayer, her blue painted robe decorated with gilded wheat ears, gilded rays on the neck and sleeve hem, carved limewood, hollowed out on the back, polychrome painted and gilded, height 90 cm, age-related damage, (MC)
Provenance:
Upper Austrian private collection, purchased from Kunsthandel Senger Bamberg in 2006, an expertise by Walter Senger is available.
Literature:
Theodor Müller, Die Bildwerke in Holz, Ton und Stein, München 1959, S. 40f., our sculpture is comparable to this Madonna of Ears from south-east Bavaria from around 1490.
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