Offered by La Crédence
          
        A rare and large Christ of pity, or Christ in bonds.  
 Jesus is sitting on a rock, stripped of his clothes, awaiting his execution.  Monoxyle Ash wood carved in the round. Traces of polychromy. Damages and missing details. 
 Normandy, circa 1480.
 Provenance: Dodier collection, Avranches. ref: published in Jacqueline Boccador's book ‘Statuaire médiévale en France de 1400 à 1530’, les clefs du temps, Suisse, 1974, fig. 267. 
 A micrographic analysis was carried out by xylodata in 2015.  The work also has an export certificate for cultural property, issued in May 2015.  Very fine quality; of museum value. 
 Height: 1,16m