ST. CATHERINE AND ST. BARBARA

Description:

Nuremberg, circa 1490
H. 90 cm
Limewood, carved with hollowed back. Standing, crowned figures of the two Saints with their attributes - a sword and a chalice - with finely carved cloths. The old polychromy overpainted, restorations and damages due to age. Crown with losses.
Old Bavarian private collection
Stefan Roller, Nürnberger Bildhauerkunst der Spätgotik, Ill. 216, 217, mentions the figures of St Catherine and St Margaret from the village church of Reutles, St Felicitas near Nuremberg in connection with the workshop of the Zwickau high altar retable.