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Artworks
Trapani
Coral and gilt metal capezzale, 17th - 18th centuryCoral and gilt metal31.5 x 25.5 cm
12 3/8 x 10 1/8 inFurther images
A 17th - 18th century Sicilian Trapani icona. The carved coral on a gilt metal ground depicting the Virgin Mary flanked by two Saints beneath God the Father with angelic musicians within a Baroque recessionary perspective.Provenance
Acquired presumably in the 19th century by the Tunstall-Moores/Macartney-Filgate families of Stedalt, Co Meath and Lowther Lodge, Dublin, Republic of Ireland and by descent to their granddaughter and former owner, the Marchesa Antonia Lanza d’Ajeta.