Live auction - Lot 92
[Flemish - Copperplate]
Pilgrimage pennant with St Lambert, the arms of van Spoelberch and the church of Lovenjoel.
18th c
Hammer price: €
800
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
Galvanised copperplate, 14,9 x 24,1 cm, inscription at bottom: "S. LAMBRECHT TOT LOVENIOUL"" (varnished on recto to give back its copper colour).
Good condition.
Two farmers with a sheep venerating St Lambert. In the background the church of Lovenjoel near Leuven. The van Spoelberch family acquired Loevenjoel in pledge and subsequently in possesion in 1649.
Ref. E. H. Van Heurck, Les drapelets de pèlerinage en Belgique et dans les pays voisins, Antwerp 1922, pp. 267-268.
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