A house altar group showing Saint Martin cutting his cloak for the beggar
c. 1520s
Germany, Rhineland, Cologne
32.5 x 29.5 x 15 cm; Carved limewood with polychromy and gilding.
This characterful and charming sculptural group is of a size, stylistic appearance and technical approach completely consistent with small-scale carvings produced in the wealthy city of Cologne during the last quarter of the fifteenth century and the first quarter of the sixteenth.
