Antique German Baroque Carved Wooden Painted Corpus Christi Christ Statue 1600 Sculpture 25" diameter

25" diameter

Condition is excellent throughout

Gagne" and is engraved to the left shoulder "Nitocris La Reine de Babylone" (The Queen of Babylon)

Nikolay Strulev

the birthplace of the prophet Muhammad

Antique German Baroque Carved Wooden Painted Corpus Christi Christ Statue 1600 Sculpture 25" diameterA remarkable early 17th century Upper Rhine hand carved and Polychrome wooden Corpus Christi statue of Jesus Christ, German or Austrian, circa 1600. A large German Baroque carved limewood figure of Christ crucified, it is very finely hand carved and painted, some expected surface wear but significant remaining original paint, with some of the polychromy refreshed. The figure showing Christ crucified, his hands and feet with nail holes and his side