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Lot 121 Dα

A large cast iron altar crucifix

Auction 1217 - overview Berlin
22.04.2023, 11:00 - The Prussian Sale
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €
Result: 2.268 € (incl. premium)
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A large cast iron altar crucifix

Showing the gilt corpus christi with the crown of thorns beneath the INRI plaque. The plinth applied with a plaque depicting the Entombment. H 115, W 39.5 cm.
Prussia, 19th C., the Entombment scene by Leonhard Posch after Guglielmo della Porta.

Literature

Cf. Schmidt, Der preußische Eisenkunstguss, Berlin 1982, illus. 40.

S.a. Forschler-Tarrasch, Leonhard Posch 1750 - 1831 Porträtmodelleur und Bildhauer, Berlin 2002, illus. 20.

S.a. Pall, Eisenkunstguss aus der Österreichisch/Ungarischen Monarchie, Graz 2011, p. 79, inv. no. 789, for the same model cast and signed by Blansko in Moravia.