Frankreich um 1400
France around 1400
Fragment of a Corpus Christi
Alabaster, worked in the round. The high quality corpus is only fragmentary, the formerly dowelled arms and the lower part of the corpus from the navel downwards are missing. In the Wilm Collection, the corpus has been placed in the circle of Claus Sluter.
Tip of the nose chipped, formerly broken off head reattached. Mounted on a plexiglass stand with a screw on the back. Height 12.5 cm.
Provenance
Collection Dr. Hubert Wilm, Munich. - Their sale at the 435th Lempertz auction, Cologne 3.12.1952, lot 41 - By succession to the present owner.
