Netherlands, c.1540 AD. A stained glass window insert with painted figural scene depicting nimbate Christ wearing loincloth and crown of thorns between two temple elders within an alcove atop steps with seven figures in attitudes of cowering and amazement, and a woman fleeing; four fragments restored in a lead-alloy frame with suspension rings. Ecce homo (Latin behold the man) are the words uttered by Pontius Pilate in the Vulgate Gospel of John, when he presents Christ, bound and crowned with thorns, to the hostile crowd shortly before his Crucifixion. 507 grams, 28.2cm (11"). Ex central London gallery; previously with Hugo Cortes; formerly in the possession of a Parisian family resident in a flat close to the Rodin Museum in Paris for several generations. [No Reserve]