Lot 296 email save

Hispano-Philippine Male Santos

Hispano-Philippine Male Santos
Batanes Province, 19th century, carved as an unidentified male saint with a tonsure, neat beard, and flowing robes, holding a Bible in one hand, covered in a white and black enamel.14 1/2"H.
Condition: lacking one hand, 2" crack to base, possibly lacking halo (hole to center top of head). Provenance: The Mr. & Mrs. Lester Andelson Collection Exhibition: The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, February 9, 1981. Literature: Philippine Religious Imagery, Fernando Zobel de Ayala, 1963

View Metropolitan Galleries at Shaker Square next auction.

Similar lots up for auction