£400 - £600
AN UNUSUAL AND FINELY CARVED FRENCH RENAISSANCE WOOD PANEL BRITTANY, 16TH/17TH CENTURY Lemon or another fruit wood, possibly a back 'splat' or part of a musical device, in low relief, 'Stations of the Cross', mounted on a wood block support splat 53cm long, 9cm wide Provenance: Ex Private London collection This would seem to be a depiction of the 'Arma Christi', or instruments of the Passion of Christ. This subject appears as from the late 15th Century in Christian iconography (going back to a legend about a vision of Pope Gregory) and the subject was heavily promoted in Catholic devotion of 'indulgence prayers' in the following decades.The Reformation opposed to many devotional practices, including these indulgence prayers - and one can only assume that this carved wooden 'splat' was part of a larger liturgic instrument (such as a crucifix, or a relic holder of some kind to be used in processions), probably destroyed in one of the many Church raids of the 16th Century
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