Lot 1395 Rα

An oak figure of a grieving woman, Mechelen or Antwerp, circa 1500. The reverse flattened, the older polychromy presumably partially reworked. A figure of a woman standing in contrapposto, clothed in a long garment and bonnet, her hands raised and her head lowered in a gesture to be interpreted as one of mourning. The reverse of the statue bears two large holes for dowels and a cross-shaped mark, meaning that the figure probably originally formed part of a shrine, possibly as part of a depiction of Christ's Entombment.