Religious folk art: Saint Barbara
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Saint Barbara

Title: „S. Barabara“

Beautiful work of paper lace with a detailed miniature gouache portrait of Saint Barbara.

Saint Barbara is the patron of miners, armourers, military engineers, gunsmiths, and anyone else who works with explosives.

Decorative religious folk art, with vibrant colours. A meticulous work of paper lace, mounted (old) on a pink (rose coloured) embossed presentation paper, late Baroque/Rococo, Augsburg (?) c. 1760-80.

Sheet size (with presentation paper): 19 x 10,7 cm

€ 790,-