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591 - A carved oak figure of St. Margaret of Antioch
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A carved oak figure of St. Margaret of Antioch Oak, with polychromy and traces of gilding over red bole and chalk ground. Figure of a lady in courtly attire standing on top of a dragon with her hands folded in front of her chest; the reverse flattened. With an old, slightly gaping vertical crack; the dragon’s tail reattached; the two braids replaced; losses to the polychromy and retouching to the flesh tones. Height 37.2 cm. Antwerp, first quarter 16th C. Provenance Private collection, Belgium. Literature Cf. catalogue Antwerpse retabels 15de–16de eeuw, Antwerp, 1993, no. 33, the standing woman in the Schnütgen Museum, Cologne, inv. no. A 855.
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Arts and crafts, silver, sculptures, furniture, ceramics, and porcelainAuction house
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