Hooded hybrid male figure playing a musical instrument (possibly a portable organ); bearded face on his backside.
New York 1975: Italy, 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Provenance
Grassi collection, Florence. Sambon, Paris (until 1930). Nicolas E. Landau, Paris. Collection of Ernest Brummer (bought in 1954): his sale, Galerie Koller and Spink and Son, Zürich, 16-19 October 1979, lot 86.
Bibliography
Chefs-d'oeuvre de la curiosité du monde, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 1954.
The Secular Spirit: Life and Art at the End of the Middle Ages, exhibition catalogue, New York, The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975, no. 106 (recorded as in Mrs Ernest Brummer Collection).
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