Adam and Eve

Two full-round colourful painted figures of limewood. Each figure on a slightly cambared plinth. Adam standing at his engaged right leg, just move apart his left foot from the floor; both arms exalted emotionally in different directions; short, curled hair. Eve in a hesitantly moving posture holding a apple branch in the right hand, and in the rised left an apple; long, lightly curled hair. (Three finger of Adam missed.) See E. F. Bange, "Die Kleinplastik in der deutschen Renaissance in Holz and Stein", Abb. Taf. 32, S. 38. "... the artist of this gorgeous carved figures is unknown. Must have been a Swabian." Source: Hugo Helbing Kunsthandlung and Kunstversteigerungshaus: Kunstbesitz eines Berliner Sammlers. Katalog Nr. 49; Math. Lempertz'sche Kunstversteigerung: Eine bekannte Süddeutsche Privatsammlung and anderer Privatbesitz, Katalog Nr. 395.