Furniture, Works of Art and Clocks - 4th July 2018
Lot 242
λ A carved ivory figure of Christ as the good shepherd
Estimate £1,000 - £1,500 | Hammer £7800
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Description
λ A carved ivory figure of Christ as the good shepherd, with traces of polychromy, depicted sleeping with his lamb, 17th / 18th century, probably Chinese or Thai-Portuguese, 20.6cm long.
See the Tàvora Sequeira Pinto Collection, illustrated in Pedro Dias, Thailand and Portugal 500 years of a common Past: The Art legacy, 2011, p. 26, fig. 19. For other examples sold at auction see Christie's Amsterdam, 26th & 27th March 2013, lot 74 and Christie's New York, 15th & 16th September 2011, lot 1283.