Offered by Floris van Wanroij Fine Art
REQUEST INFORMATION
Old master painting, sculpture & works of art from the Haute Epoque period
Malines
Renaissance, middle of the 16th Century, ca. 1540/60
Bronze
Depicting the Virgin and Christ, St. Michael, the Holy Face, a kneeling donor figure, St. George and St. Martin, under a lettered bands: ‘LOFT GOD VAN AL’. Marked with the Malines city coat of arms. The handle formed of three addorsed putti.
H. 11,8 cm.
PROVENANCE
Private collection
REFERENCE LITERATURE
Lange, A. (1981). Europäische Tischglocken. Kornwestheim: Minner-Verlag, p. 98;
Kuile, O. ter (1986). Koper en Brons. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, pp. 236-237, nr. 327-329, with ill.
CATALOGUE NOTE
During the 15th and 16th centuries, the export trade of artisan and artistic pieces from the Netherlands reached a high development. Among these pieces were bells known as ‘bells from Mechelen’, the Flemish city from which they originated. Commonly religious images and texts or mythological themes are depicted on the bells.
