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Floris van Wanroij Fine Art

Madonna and Child
Malines, late Gothic, first quarter of the 16th century
Walnut with original polychrome and gilding, marked with the ‘M’ mark in the front and Malines three-bar Guild mark on the reverse
H 32.4 cm (incl. base)
Recorded at KIK-IRPA, Brussels, object n° 11016890
Certificate of expertise by Mrs J. Zeberg, Vice-President of the Chambre Royale des Antiquaires de Belgique, dd. 1 February 1996
Provenance: J. Zeberg Antiques NV, Antwerp, TEFAF Maastricht 1996, acquired by private collection, Antwerp
Literature: Exhibition catalogue 1996 TEFAF Maastricht. Den Bosch: The European Fine Art Foundation, p. 293, with ill.; F. Cayron & D. Steyaert, Made in Malines. Les statuettes malinoises ou poupées de Malines de 1500-1540. Étude matérielle et typologique, 2019; Brussels: KIK-IRPA, p. 150, ill. 3.55
Exhibition: TEFAF Maastricht, March 1996

This statuette of the Madonna and Child is a prime example of the Malines sculpture production of the early sixteenth century. The polychromy is attributed to the anonymous Maître aux fleurettes isolées (ca. 1501–ca. 1550). Cayron and Steyaert have identified three other sculptures with applied polychrome and gilding by this Malines master (2019, p. 150)