Flanders, ca. 1600 Adam Gilt bronze H : 32,4 cm on a blackened wooden base H : 8 cm Related literature: Hans Robert Weihrauch, Europäische Brozestatuette, Braunschweig, Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1967, p. 362. The author of this high-quality statuette is probably to be found in Flanders around 1600. Perhaps it is a portrait of St. John the Baptist or Adam. The fineness of the face and the fashionable hairstyle and beard of the early 17th century suggest that this is a portrait. The type of dry and precise chasing and chiseling as well as the carefully repaired casting flaws suggest that the work was executed in one of the most prestigious Flemish workshops at the turn of the 16th century.