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AN EXTREMELY RARE BOHEMIAN PAVISE, RAVENSBURG, circa 1490. |
| Of rectangular shape with rounded corners and a deep medial gutter of rounded section formed of wood covered with gessoed canvas. The front decorated with the arms of the city of Ravensburg, in Würtemberg, a city gate with a portcullis, between two turrets crowned with battlements. Ravensburg became a Free Town in 1267 and joined the Swabian League in 1331. A similar example is in the Wallace Collection, London (No. 338) and another is in the Kretzschmar von Keinbusch Collection in Philadelphia (No. 284). |
| Item ref: 909 |
 From £50,000 to £100,000 |
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