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It is highly likely that it was produced in Luebeck because of its close stylistic affinities to the statuette of Christ as  a Man of Sorrows attached to the tabernacle of the sacrament house in the church of St Mary in Luebeck.","physicalDescription":"Christ, with shoulder-length hair, wearing the crown of thorns and a loin-cloth, stands on a flat hexagonal base, his right foot projecting slightly over the edge. He raises his left arm to show the wound in his hand, and holds a chalice with his right hand into which flows a jet of blood from the wound in his side. \r\nThe statuette is a solid cast; the thorns of the crown and the wire indicating the jet of blood pouring into the chalice are made separately. A triangular indentation at the front of the base probably facilitated fixing. A hole of 0.05cm has been drilled into the top of the head.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"Solid cast bronze","categories":[{"text":"sculpture","id":"THES48896"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"MET","id":"THES48599"},"images":["2010EJ4806","2010EJ4807","2006AN0811","2006AN0814","2018KX5062","2015HU9283"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"27 (VA)","id":"THES49835"},"free":"","case":"CA2","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Figure","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Lübeck","id":"x28965"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1480","earliest":"1480-01-01","latest":"1480-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"26.7","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"29/06/2015","earliest":"2015-06-29","latest":"2015-06-29"},"part":"Base to top of figure's head.","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"10","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"29/06/2015","earliest":"2015-06-29","latest":"2015-06-29"},"part":"Approximate, taken across the arms of the figure","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"6","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"29/06/2015","earliest":"2015-06-29","latest":"2015-06-29"},"part":"From front to back of base","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Purchased from the Reverend  D. J. S. Scorer, Newhaven, Sussex, for £50 in 1958.\n\nHistorical significance: This bronze monument was commisioned in 1476 by the church elders, and completed in 1479 by the founder Claus Grude (active 1466-93) after models provided by the goldsmith Claus Rughese (active 1469-about 1491) (Rosenberg 1923, no. 3156; Hasse 1983, pp. 99-100, fig. 53.2). Although the present piece represents a different iconographic type (the Man of Sorrows in Lübeck points with his left hand to the wound in his side), and is of a different size (h. approximately 45cm), the facture (it is also a solid cast), and certain details, such as the distinctive rib-cage and the facial features, closely link the pieces in London and Lübeck, and they may have originated in the same workshop in Lübeck.","historicalContext":"On acquisition it was suggested  that the present figure, which was probably originally fixed onto a tabernacle door, was produced in Lübeck because of its close stylistic affinities to the statuette of Christ as Man of Sorrows attached to the tabernacle of the sacrament-house in the church of St Mary in Lübeck (Register file in the Department of Metalwork, Silver and Jewellery).","briefDescription":"Church plate, Continental","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Jopek, Norbert <font -u>German Sculpture: 1430-1540</font>, London, 2002, cat. no. 1,"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Bale, Anthony and David Feldman, eds. <u>Blood. Reflections on what unites and divides us</u>. [Published to accompany the exhibition 'Blood: uniting and dividing' at the Jewish Museum London, 5 November 2015 - 28 February 2016]. Oxford: Shire Publications, 2015. 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The figure was probably set on the door of a tabernacle in which the consecrated bread and wine were kept.\r\n\r\nChrist as the Man of Sorrows with a Chalice\r\nAbout 1480\r\nNorthern Germany (Luebeck)\r\nBronze\r\nMuseum no. M.20-1958","date":{"text":"June /2010 November 2010","earliest":"2010-06-01","latest":"2010-11-30"}},{"text":"Christ as the Man of\r\nSorrows with a Chalice\r\nAbout 1480\r\nNorthern Germany, Lübeck\r\nBronze\r\nMuseum no. M.20-1958","date":{"text":"26/10/2010","earliest":"2010-10-26","latest":"2010-10-26"}}],"partNumbers":["M.20-1958"],"accessionNumberNum":"20","accessionNumberPrefix":"M","accessionYear":1958,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LV0199","2019LU2950","2019LW6691","2021MV1731"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-12","recordCreationDate":"2002-11-21","availableToBook":false}}