Antique German Baroque Carved Wooden Painted Corpus Christi Christ Statue 1600 Sculpture Gavina (who represented Bruer's designs)

Gavina (who represented Bruer's designs) in the 1950s and Knoll acquired Gavina in 1968

The table having a single horizontal stretcher with rasied circular studs to the center and the desk is rasied on the original ceramic castors

meant to signify the burgeoning love of a young woman

The arms and stretchers also ornately carved and having stylized lion masks

Antique German Baroque Carved Wooden Painted Corpus Christi Christ Statue 1600 Sculpture Gavina (who represented Bruer's designs)A remarkable early 17th century Upper Rhine hand carved and Polychrome wooden Corpus Christi statue of Jesus Christ, German or Austrian, circa 1600. A large German Baroque carved limewood figure of Christ crucified, it is very finely hand carved and painted, some expected surface wear but significant remaining original paint, with some of the polychromy refreshed. The figure showing Christ crucified, his hands and feet with nail holes and his side