ID 1344892
Lot 128 | TRAPANI, LATE 17TH CENTURY
Estimate value
£ 25 000 – 35 000
A devotional plaque with Saint Francis
coral, mounted in an enamel and gilt-copper framing; the verso engraved with Saint Francis surrounded by foliate scrolls
19 ½ in. (49 cm.) x 141/7 in. (36 cm.)
Provenance
Collection Luigi Koelliker,
The Luigi Koelliker Studiolo; Sotheby's, London, 3 December 2008, lot 50.
Hôtel Lambert, Une Collection Princière, Volume II: Kunstkammer; Sotheby's, Paris, 12 October 2022, lot 263.
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
A. Dameu, L'Arte Trapanese del Corallo, Milan, 1964.
G. C. Ascione, Gloria del Corallo a Napoli dal XVI al XIX Secolo, Naples, 1991.
Museo di Capodimonte e Museo Pignatelli, Civiltà del seicento a Napoli, Naples, 1985.
Museo Regionale Pepoli, Coralli, Talismani Sacri e Profani, Trapani, 1986, nos. 76 and 82.
M. Concetta Di Natale, Il Corallo Trapanese nei secoli XVI e XVII, Brescia, 2002, no. 17, pp. 56-57.
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