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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ex Libris, post: 9563887, member: 14916&quot;]I am not sure this object is &quot;art&quot;, but I thought it is interesting and somehow a bit naive.</p><p><br /></p><p>As there is many knowledge here on this forum I&#039;d like to ask you to help me to get as much possible information about this object. It contains many different materials, so any input is welcome!</p><p><br /></p><p>This is an obvious Catholic triptych, bought in Belgium some time ago and probably served as a personal devotional item.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is what I see:</p><p><br /></p><p>A small (20 cm high) wooden casket, with in the middle part a figure of Jesus (bone? ivory?) in front of a piece of fabric. On the panels at the side a naive painting of a woman (Virgin Mary with a child and a priest(?)) with flowers in his hand</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]458144[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The verso</p><p>[ATTACH=full]458150[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]458160[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The male figure.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe a shot in the dark, but I think this is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloysius_Gonzaga" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloysius_Gonzaga" rel="nofollow">Aloysius Gonzaga</a> as he is depicted as a young priest with a lily in his hand. He was beatified in 1605 and canonized in 1726. He was a popular saint in Spain and the southern Low Countries in the 18th century. He was the patron of young students.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]458153[/ATTACH]</p><p>The corpus</p><p><br /></p><p>The figure of Jesus is made of bone or Ivory and looks to me earlier than the triptych itself. The corpus is stylized in a way I have never seen. The ankles are quite weird. Maybe it is a particular style or just very naive made. The arms are separate pieces.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]458156[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The cloth</p><p><br /></p><p>As I do not know anything about cloth I cannot say much about it. It seems cut out a larger piece.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]458157[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>My thoughts about this piece</p><p><br /></p><p>It looks like a personal travel altar for a Jesuit (because Saint Aloysius) student from about 1730-1750. The altar was arranged from an older corpus, together with some materials from the 18th century. It was made quite crude.</p><p><br /></p><p>What do you think?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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