INDO-PORTUGUESE GILT ALABASTER FIGURE OF THE MADONNA AND CHILD
19TH CENTURY
£3,276
Auction: Five Centuries: 15 November 2023 From 10:00
Description
modelled as the standing figure of the Madonna with flowing gold hair and applied gilt brass circular halo, holding the Christ Child, their robes gilt with a repeating cartouches and fleur-de-lis, the base with an eagle holding a cartouche with five towers, housed in a bone inlaid teak tabernacle of the same period, the doors with repeating floral designs and barley twist columns, the interiors with a green silk brocaded velvet
Dimensions
Figure 77cm high total; tabernacle 89cm high, 45cm wide, 25cm deep
Provenance
Provenance: Henryson-Caird Collection, Cassencarie House