LOT 0640 Christian Carved Stele with Religious Scenes
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17th-18th century AD. A Post Byzantine rectangular alabaster stele with carved high-relief iconography to both broad faces relating to the birth and early life of Jesus; Side A: three winged angels with trumpets to their mouths, above two winged angels holding a fabric screen or curtain behind a scene of the Nativity with nimbate Mary and Joseph, shepherd's crook above a crib with nimbate infant Jesus, lamb and three other figures, two nimbate, probably the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph again to the side, Ethiopian script legend in Ge'ez above the standing figures and another at the top of the stele; Side B: nimbate God in majesty with arms spread, flanked by two winged angels, above a dense cloud with archangel Michael in flight wielding a sword, above the representation of the escape from Egypt, including nimbate Mary and Jesus riding on a donkey led by a robed figure with a crook (Joseph) and followed by another holding up a flowered stalk (Saint James, the half brother of Jesus and one of the sons of Joseph); hatched band to the base. See Horowitz, D.E. et al., Ethiopian Art: The Walters Art Museum, 2001, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore.18.9 kg, 51cm (20"). Property of a Norfolk, UK, collector; formerly from a French collection, Avignon, Alpes-Côte d'Azur. The carving represents an image of the Nativity and Escape from Egypt according the Tradition of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Like in all the Orthodox images of the episode, it is singular with the presence of the older brother of Christ, James, together with Saint Mary and Saint Joseph.
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