AN ALABASTER HEAD OF A BISHOP Franconia, circa 1620 L. 27 cm Fragment of a full figure. Alabaster. Annunciation scene in relief on the miter and relief in the form of precious stones on the borders. The sculptor's mark "+ H" stamped on the reverse of the miter as well as an old inventory label no. "11021". Some losses and chipped. Mounted on a velvet plate. Tip of the nose rest. From a South German private collection, assembled between 1955 and 1980. To compare the head at hand see the bishop figure on the high altar of the castle church Aschaffenburg (Archbishop Johann Schweikard von Kronberg) by Hans Juncker. Here the miter is repeated with an annunciation scene and stone trimmings in relief. Lit. Thomas Richter (eds.), Der Bildhauer, Hans Juncker, Munich 2014. But also the opera of Veit Dümpel, for example on the Bernhardusaltar in the chruch of Ebrach is quite similar to the bishop's head at hand.