A Flemish or Spanish brass 'Ecce Homo' plaque, 17th C.

10,9 x 7 cm (with suspension loop)

9,6 x 7 cm (without suspension loop)

This first half of the 17th-C. devotional plaque is based on a late 16th-C. or early 17th-C. Spanish plaque. The very popular and much appreciated iconography ('Ecce Homo': three-quarter length figure of Christ bound, wearing the crown of thorns and holding the mock sceptre) appears very frequently in 17th-C. religious works of art as it represents nicely the baroque taste.

Ref.:

- A very similar plaque is since 2012 by a gift of Joseph G. Reinis part of the 'European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Collection' of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met), New York, United States, No. 2012.545.3, link.

Literature:

- I. Weber, Deutsche, Niederländische und Französische Renaissanceplaketten 1500-1650. Modelle für Reliefs an Kult-, Prunk- und Gebrauchsgegenständen, Munich, 1975, p. 409, No. 1309 and plate 295.