Bronze Statuette "christ Au Reed" Flemish School Early 18th

Bronze statuette with brown-green patina on a square black lacquered support representing Christ with the reed "Ecce Homo" Good condition `` Height: 22 cm Flemish School of the early 18th Bibliography: The reed of Christ a parodic scepter The evangelists mention it when they evoke the passion of Christ and in particular the episode during which he is led into the courtroom of the government and delivered to the brutality of the soldiers, they then proceed to an inverted and parodic coronation, stripping him of his clothes, posing on his head a crown of thorns; and placing a simple reed in his hand as a scepter, since he is the king of the Jews.