ALLEMAGNE, vers le premier tiers du XVIIème s... Lot n° 8

Small Pieta in silver (750/12 löthige) hollow. The two figures joined by a small threaded axis and a poly-lobed nut under the basin of Christ. The Virgin is intended to be seated on a pedestal. No goldsmith's mark. Repunched at the beginning of the XIXth century: Austro-Hungarian punch [12 F? or H?] of the office of Control of BRÜNN [current Czech Republic] or of that of GRATZ [current Poland] for the year 1806-1807. Exempted because manufacture before 1838. Weight : 296 g. - H. : 10.5 cm approximately. Some cracks, small holes, some shocks and some accidents, in particular on the right leg and on the back of the right arm of Christ. Possible old restoration welds on the neck and right shoulder of Christ. The Virgin would have been presented on a pedestal, probably in the niche of a devotional altar in a private chapel, in the room of a house, on a reliquary or at the foot of a monstrance cross. This type of religious group in the round was produced in Augsburg, Nuremberg and as far away as Pomerania between the end of the sixteenth century and the middle of the seventeenth century, with abundant production in the first third of the seventeenth century. The composition seems to be inspired by Michelangelo's Pieta, in its general composition, without the suppleness of the fabrics and flesh.