17TH CENTURY PORTUGUESE COLONIAL SCHOOL - BRAZILIAN COLONIAL WORK FROM MINAS GER…
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17TH CENTURY PORTUGUESE COLONIAL SCHOOL - BRAZILIAN COLONIAL WORK FROM MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL - Exquisite Virgin and Child in Glory Sublime Baroque carving from the second half of the 17th century, Minas Gerais, Portuguese Brazil. Made of finely carved tropical wood, gilded, polychrome and with glass eyes (insignificant flaws and preserving almost all of its original polychrome and gilding), Portuguese colonial work from the second half of the 17th century. Bibliography: BOSCHI, Caio César. I read you power: Legal Irmandades and Colonizing Policies in Minas Gerais. São Paulo: Ática, 1986. Provenance: important private collection, Madrid. Lot not subject to reserve price. Liquidation of important private family collection.

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17TH CENTURY PORTUGUESE COLONIAL SCHOOL - BRAZILIAN COLONIAL

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