Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - 4th October 2023
Lot 234
A FRENCH SANDSTONE BUST OF THE SORROWING VIRGIN
Estimate £3,000 - £5,000 | Hammer £7000
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Description
A FRENCH SANDSTONE BUST OF THE SORROWING VIRGIN
POSSIBLY LORRAINE, C.1400
with traces of polychrome decoration, carved with her head tilted to the right, wearing a wimple and veil above a blue cloak and a red and gold dress
75.5cm high
Provenance
Sotheby Parke Bernet, The Robert von Hirsch Collection, 22nd June 1978, lot 381.
Purchased from Michel Dumez-Onof, 109 Mount Street, London, 10th July 1981.
From a Private Collection, West Yorkshire, formed in the 1970s and 1980s.