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Auction archive: Lot number 10

A Nottingham carved alabaster fragmentary relief of the Annunciation, 15th century

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Auction archive: Lot number 10

A Nottingham carved alabaster fragmentary relief of the Annunciation, 15th century

Estimate
£0
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

A Nottingham carved alabaster fragmentary relief of the Annunciation, 15th century, portraying the Virgin in traditional posture to the right, in full and flowing drapery, beside an architectural structure with two registers of Gothic windows; above a crenellated course and further elements of Gothic tracery; with traces of original polychromy in places; later mounted onto a green velvet covered rectangular wood backplate The alabaster 39cm high, 28cm wide; the board 47 x 34.5cm The missing area to the left of the Virgin traditionally has God the Father at upper left, with the Holy Spirit issuing from His mouth, above a kneeling angel and a lily in a vase. The arrangement of the figures was highly formalised, convention also dictating the architectural background to the right side. This layout was as common in Orthodox iconography as it was in western European Christian art The foot of the angel is present in the current example, and appears above what might be a stylised representation of a river stream, most unusual outside Byzantine depictions of the Annunciation Cf Christie's New York, Continental Furniture, Works of Art, Tapestries & Carpets, 25th - 26th September 2001, lot 240 Also Sotheby's London, Property from Aristocratic Families, Including Coaches from a Royal Stable, 30th October 2007, lot 73 Comparative literature: Francis Cheetham, English Medieval Alabasters, Oxford, 1984

Auction archive: Lot number 10
Auction:
Datum:
15 Nov 2019 - 20 Nov 2019
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
Beschreibung:

A Nottingham carved alabaster fragmentary relief of the Annunciation, 15th century, portraying the Virgin in traditional posture to the right, in full and flowing drapery, beside an architectural structure with two registers of Gothic windows; above a crenellated course and further elements of Gothic tracery; with traces of original polychromy in places; later mounted onto a green velvet covered rectangular wood backplate The alabaster 39cm high, 28cm wide; the board 47 x 34.5cm The missing area to the left of the Virgin traditionally has God the Father at upper left, with the Holy Spirit issuing from His mouth, above a kneeling angel and a lily in a vase. The arrangement of the figures was highly formalised, convention also dictating the architectural background to the right side. This layout was as common in Orthodox iconography as it was in western European Christian art The foot of the angel is present in the current example, and appears above what might be a stylised representation of a river stream, most unusual outside Byzantine depictions of the Annunciation Cf Christie's New York, Continental Furniture, Works of Art, Tapestries & Carpets, 25th - 26th September 2001, lot 240 Also Sotheby's London, Property from Aristocratic Families, Including Coaches from a Royal Stable, 30th October 2007, lot 73 Comparative literature: Francis Cheetham, English Medieval Alabasters, Oxford, 1984

Auction archive: Lot number 10
Auction:
Datum:
15 Nov 2019 - 20 Nov 2019
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
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