The prototype of the image of the Mother of God depicted on the obverse of this guttergraph was made in 1984 by Prof. Andrzej Pitynski, a sculptor currently living in the U.S. She was first placed on a bronze memorial plaque, (130cmX80cm) in a church in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. The Mother of God, depicted in this way, has been used many times to honor the heroes of the Home Army and the Warsaw Uprising on monuments, medals and this very guttergraph. In 1998, the Insurgent (Home Army) Mother of God was also placed on a monument (bronze figure on granite, 400cmx300cmx300cm) in Warsaw, 60 Solidarności Avenue, in the place where a barricade stood during the Uprising - the Redoubt of the Mother of God.
This guttergraph with just such a representation of the figure of the Virgin Mary appears very rarely on the auction market despite the fact that it is a product of no age.
The Mother of God holding in her hands not the son of Jesus Christ but the slain little insurgent, on an enameled background in white and red colors, on the breast of an oxidized engraved eagle with a crown.
Made with greatattention to detail. Large, in very good to perfect condition with delicate patina.
Made in the second half of the 1980s. An interesting item for the collection.
Material: brass 172mm x 158 mm
Weight: 359.66 g
