Northern Italian Altar Crucifix with Serpent Vanitas c.1750

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Northern Italian Altar Crucifix with Serpent Vanitas c.1750An amazingly rare example of a highly unusual Northern Italian devotional Altar Crucifix c. 1750 The altarpiece depicts a Memento Mori or vanitas displaying the Devil in the guise of the serpent writhing around the base of the cross upon the hill of Calvary. The serpent holds the apple clutched in his fangs, a reference to the original sin in the garden of Eden. The notion of the Garden of Eden is also represented with tiny intricate shells, vines,

or the episode of the Niobids

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Greek mythology associates the quince with Aphrodite

Size listed is maximum dimensions of the single jars

dating back to Neolithic eastern Anatolia

one is 97cm high

An exceptional Italian polychromed and gilt enthroned Madonna and Child devotional sculpture created c

still with much of its original paint - is a truly one-off piece

an empty shotgun cartridge and the Parisian owners business card with the name and address ‘Daniel Bougard - 28 Rue du Temple

symbol of his Epistles

underscoring the piece’s authenticity and centuries of reverence