A LIMESTONE HEAD OF A MAN, POSSIBLY A POPE

Lot 109
12.10.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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ID 1027578
Lot 109 | A LIMESTONE HEAD OF A MAN, POSSIBLY A POPE
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$ 20 000 – 30 000
A LIMESTONE HEAD OF A MAN, POSSIBLY A POPE

FRENCH, 13TH CENTURY

on a modern base

15 ¼ in. (39 cm.) high; 22 ½ in. (57 cm.) high, overall





Provenance

The Collection of the Rothschild family.

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

R. Klein, Chartres. Naissance d’une cathédrale, January 1961, no. 5-211, fig. 5.

H. Arthur, Chartres (extérieur), Paris, 1962, pp. 24-32.

W. Sauerländer, Gothic sculpture in France, 1140-1270, London, 1972, pp. fig. 86, 116, 120-122, 217-218, 249.

J. A. Holladay, S.L. Ward, Gothic Sculpture in America. III. The Museums of New York and Pennsylvania, New York, 2016, pp. 318-319.
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