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Limoges enamel plaque with a sainted bishop

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An image of Enamel Plaque. Two rectangular pieces of a plaque, the upper piece wider than the lower piece. A bishop with a halo indicated sainthood, seated under a Romanesque arch resting on acanthus capitals on columns whose lower parts are missing. He holds a crook in his left hand and a book in his right. In the background there are four- and eight-pointed stars and small discs reserved in a punched ground. Copper, engraved, punched, and champlevé enamelled, height, A, 8.1 cm, width, A, 11.1 cm; height, B, 8.1 cm, width, B, 7 cm, 1200-1225. Limoges, France. Romanesque.

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Enamel Plaque. Two rectangular pieces of a plaque, the upper piece wider than the lower piece. A bishop with a halo indicated sainthood, seated under a Romanesque arch resting on acanthus capitals on columns whose lower parts are missing. He holds a crook in his left hand and a book in his right. In the background there are four- and eight-pointed stars and small discs reserved in a punched ground. Copper, engraved, punched, and champlevé enamelled, height, A, 8.1 cm, width, A, 11.1 cm; height, B, 8.1 cm, width, B, 7 cm, 1200-1225. Limoges, France. Romanesque.

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  • Accession Number: M.28A & B-1904
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/22.0
  • Focal length: 100
  • Camera: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
  • Photographer name: Michael Jones
  • Image height: 1050 pixels
  • Image width: 707 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 483.77kB
  • Exposure time: 1/10
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 22/1
  • Captured: 2008:01:09 20:23:15

Key words

13th Century acanthus arch arched bishop broken capitals champleve copper crook crozier enamel enamelled engraved engraving Fitz_AA French halo key-hole keyhole keys Limoges lock lock plate male Medieval plaque punched Romanesque saints

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