A Rhenish earthenware pietà sculpture - image-1

Lot 1017 Dα

A Rhenish earthenware pietà sculpture

Auction 1184 - overview Cologne
19.11.2021, 11:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €
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A Rhenish earthenware pietà sculpture

Pietà group worked in the round after a 17th century model. One of the Virgin's feet, both of Christ's feet and the tips of the chair backrests lost. The Virgin's right arm cracked. H 29 cm.
Rhineland / Lower Rhine Region, late 17th / early 18th C.

Provenance

Property of a Rhenish aristocrat, auctioned by Lempertz Cologne in auction 1028 on 15th / 16th May 2014, lot 596.

Private collection, Lower Rhine Region.

Literature

A similarly designed Westerwald stoneware Pietà in Reineking v. Bock, Cologne 1971, no. 778; two further stoneware figures from the Lower Rhine Region in Scholten-Neess/Jüttner, Düsseldorf 1971, no. 1051 and 1054.