Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 11

Virgin with Child Enthroned, Boxwood, Bronze and Carved Rock Crystal, 19th C

$9,585.15
£7,134.20
€8,000
CA$13,129.26
A$14,602.60
CHF 7,625.02
MX$177,698.11
NOK 97,383.19
SEK 91,328.25
DKK 60,901.21
Shipping
Retrieving quote...
The 1stDibs Promise:
Authenticity Guarantee,
Money-Back Guarantee,
24-Hour Cancellation

About the Item

Virgin with Child enthroned. Boxwood, bronze and carved rock crystal. XIX century. On an upholstered base, another second base has been placed in bronze, the metal in which the throne is made. It stands on four low columns with smooth shafts with capitals decorated with scrolls and simplified vegetal forms, decorative elements that are repeated at the waist, combined with oval blue beads; the back, square and openwork with highly schematic scrolls, is topped by four carved rock crystal pearls. The Virgin Mary is seated on it, with a crown that repeats the decorative elements of the throne, dressed in a tunic and mantle and with a book in her hand. The Child Jesus, on his lap, also directs his gaze forward, while blessing with his right hand. The iconography comes, as usual, from Byzantine models: among the Theotokos types, the Panakranta or Panacranta is in which Mary appears seated on a throne, with the Child on her lap and both facing the viewer, showing what was agreed upon. at the IV Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon (451 AD). These were arriving in Europe already in the Romanesque, developing the iconography of the West. This work can be compared with the Italo-Byzantine icon from the thirteenth century preserved in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC (United States), or the carving of the "Virgin of the Battles" of the Monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza, made around 1225-1235, and preserved in the Museum of Burgos, or the Romanesque of the mid-seventeenth century today in the Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires (Argentina), although there are a large number of examples. However, details such as the decoration of the capitals, the anatomy shown by the two figures, the scrolls of the throne and the crown, the folds of the cloths, a certain air in the faces despite their schematization, the symmetry present in various points of the work, etc., show the belonging of the carving to a date closer to the present day. Specifically, the style known as Neo-Gothic: it was inspired by works from the 13th to 15th-16th centuries and was opposed to the preceding Neoclassical; It was born in England around the middle of the 18th century, and spread across continental Europe in the 19th century." · Size: 10x10x24 cm aprox. International Buyers – Please Note: for those articles that need Export Permits (those older than 100 years), the obtaining of the Permit will be processed without additional expenses, but the period for the obtention of it may vary from 10 to 35 days.
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 9.45 in (24 cm)Width: 3.94 in (10 cm)Depth: 3.94 in (10 cm)
  • Style:
    Neoclassical Revival (Of the Period)
  • Materials and Techniques:
  • Place of Origin:
  • Period:
  • Date of Manufacture:
    19th Century
  • Condition:
    Wear consistent with age and use. Minor losses. Minor fading.
  • Seller Location:
    Madrid, ES
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: Z67071stDibs: LU2951325305732

More From This Seller

View All
Virgin with Child. Carved and polychrome wood. Spanish school, 13th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Virgin with Child. Carved and polychrome wood. Spanish school, 13th century. It has faults. Polychrome wood carving that shows the Virgin sitting on a throne, with her right hand r...
Category

Antique 15th Century and Earlier Spanish Gothic Religious Items

Materials

Other

"Virgin with Child Jesus". Spain, End of the 17th-Early 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Spanish Baroque sculpture is one of the most authentic and personal examples of our art, because its conception and its form of expression arose from the people and from the deepest ...
Category

Antique Late 17th Century Spanish Baroque Religious Items

Materials

Wood

Immaculate Conception. Wood, glass, silver. Portuguese school, 18th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Immaculate Conception. Carved and polychrome wood, glass, silver. Portuguese school, 18th century. Sculpture made of wood showing a young Mary, with her hands together in front of h...
Category

Antique 18th Century European Rococo Religious Items

Materials

Silver, Other

Reredos Fragment, Gilded Wood, circa Second Half of the 17th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Altarpiece. Wood carved and gilded. Baroque, towards the second half of the 17th century. The Solomonic column was an element already known in the Renaissance (and before) that was popularized in art, in large part, thanks to the Baldachin of St. Peter's Basilica of the Vatican by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1624-1633), where he presented branches. In Spain, this type can already be seen in the Silver Tabernacle of the Cathedral of Seville (Juan de Alfaro, 15931596), used in altarpieces from the 1620s; nevertheless, the apogee of the Solomonic column will come from the hand of José Benito de Churriguera, whose altarpieces have an extraordinary importance since the second half of the 17th century and already at the beginning of the 18th century (note similarities and differences between the present altarpiece and that of the Convent of San Esteban...
Category

Antique 17th Century European Baroque Religious Items

Materials

Wood

Virgin with Child, Devotional Medal or Pendant. Spain, 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Medal. Spain, 18th century. Devotional medal made of gilded metal that shows an image of the Virgin Mary, placed on a pedestal and surrounded by a r...
Category

Antique 18th Century Spanish Neoclassical Religious Items

Materials

Metal

Saint or Virgin to dress. Wood, metal. Spanish school, 17th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Saint or Virgin to dress. Wood, metal. Spanish school, 17th century. It has faults. The female figure stands (with her right leg forward) on a small polygonal base. Made of partial...
Category

Antique 17th Century Spanish Baroque Religious Items

Materials

Metal, Other

You May Also Like

Antique Statue of Virgin Mary and Child , 19th Century
Located in Basildon, GB
A Pine Carving of Virgin and Child signed E. Lechner. Carved in 15th Century style, a high relief with a hollowed back and depicting the crowned Virgin standing on contrapose with lo...
Category

Antique Mid-19th Century European Gothic Religious Items

Materials

Wood, Pine

Portuguese Baroque Madonna and Child Sculpture, 17th Century
Located in Lisbon, PT
This late 17th-century Portuguese Baroque sculpture in polychromed wood depicts the Madonna holding the Christ Child, carved with exquisite detail and spiritual grace. The Virgin is...
Category

Antique Late 17th Century Portuguese Baroque Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Gold Leaf

Image of Our Lady of Conception, Carved in Marfinite
Located in Lisboa, Lisboa
Image of Our Lady of Conception, carved in marfinite, presents a harmonious and detailed composition, referring to the traditional iconography of the Immaculate Virgin. The central f...
Category

Mid-20th Century Portuguese Mid-Century Modern Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic

18th Century Italian Neoclassical Carved Wooden Madonna With Child
Located in Buisson, FR
Beautiful weathered neoclassical Madonna with child. Traces of original color and gilding visible, Italy, circa 1760-1800. Weathered small losses and old repairs. More photo's availa...
Category

Antique 18th Century Italian Neoclassical Religious Items

Materials

Wood

European 16th Century Hand Carved Wooden Virgin Mary Polychrome Statue
Located in Oostende, BE
This 16th century hand-carved wooden Virgin Mary polychrome statue comes from a church in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium (Europe), and was bought directly fr...
Category

Antique 16th Century Belgian Gothic Religious Items

Materials

Walnut

Early 20th Century Carved Wood Mary and Child in Medieval Style
Located in San Francisco, CA
Early 20th Century wood Mary and Child in Medieval Style, likely carved in the Philippines. 17.75" x 4" x 4"
Category

Early 20th Century Philippine Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Wood