Is a very nice. Saint George and the Dragon. Made and signed by Marian Kievits (1944/2008) in Holland. Its mounted on a stone base. Its signed MK on the taile of the dragon, you can see it on the pictures. I don’t know if there are more made, probably only one. Measures 10,3 inch high and 6 inch wide, weight 3,2 kilo. All my items are securely packet, to avoid all possible damage (look at my feedback). Please contact me if you have any questions. Automatically after the eighth day. Please see my other auctions for more antique catholic items. This are antique items and no copie or new made fakes! Kievits was an autodidact as an artist. She initially worked in ceramics, but switched to bronze. In addition to small sculptures, she made a number of bronze statues for public space. She was inspired by the human figure and the relationship that people have with each other or with animals. Her works show Kievit’s humorous nature. She has exhibited from the early 1980s, among others with Aas Paasman in De Klimmende Bever in IJsselmonde (1983), with Onno Boerwinkel, Wijm Bos and Heleen Vriesendorp at De Vlierhoeve in Blaricum (1994) and with Annie van Wingerden-Monen at gallery De Praktijk. One of her images was the Flax Boy in clogs, lugging two bundles of flax. The statue was placed in 1988 along the Waaltje in memory of the flax cultivation in Rijsoord. At the end of 2012, the bronze boys were sawn off the pedestal, after which a number of statues were temporarily stored in the municipality as a precaution. One of these was Winkelientje, another statue of Kievits, which has been in storage until 2020. In 2014, a work of art by Joop Horsten was placed at the location of the Vlasjongen, which depicts the contours of the boy in steel. And a bronze portrait of Queen Beatrix in front of the council chamber of the municipality of Ridderkerk. Was moved to the meeting room of the mayor and aldermen after the throne. Kievits was a board member of the Oud Ridderkerk Foundation, which manages the local Antiquities Chamber. When former mayor Harm Bruins Slot left the municipality in 1994, he donated two statuettes of Kievits that he had received during his tenure to the Oudheidkamer. Fourth Sunday in June. Third Sunday in July. That’s all we know for sure. Several stories have been attached to Saint George, the best known of which is the. In it, a dragon lived in a lake near Silena, Libya. Whole armies had gone up against this fierce creature, and had gone down in painful defeat. The monster ate two sheep each day; when mutton was scarce, lots were drawn in local villages, and maidens were substituted for sheep. Into this country came Saint George. Hearing the story on a day when a princess was to be eaten, he crossed himself, rode to battle against the serpent, and killed it with a single blow with his lance. George then held forth with a magnificent sermon, and converted the locals. Given a large reward by the king, George distributed it to the poor, then rode away. Due to his chivalrous behavior (protecting women, fighting evil, dependence on faith and might of arms, largesse to the poor), devotion to Saint George became popular in the Europe after the 10th century. In the 15th century his feast day was as popular and important as Christmas. Many of his areas of patronage have to do with life as a knight on horseback. Knights of the Garter. Knights of the Order of Saint George. The shrine built for his relics at Lydda, Palestine was a popular point of pilgrimage for centuries. Order of the Garter. Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers.
