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Two Crowned Martyrs
Unknown
(Workshop)
Plaque from the gable end of a reliquary. Copper, champlevé, engraved, enamelled, in two shades of blue, green, red, and white, and gilt. Pentagonal with ten small circular holes situated at each corner and half-way along each side. Two crowned maryrs wearing long gowns, and each holding a palms in his left hand, are seated on a cross-hatched plank surrounded by scrolling stems bearing leaves, and between the figures, two cones, reserved in a blue ground. Under their feet is a gilt band bearing the inscription EXVLTABVNT: DÑO OSSA: HVMILIATA (The humiliated bones shall rejoice in the Lord) . Below it is a wavy band over two skewed rectangular coffins containing bones, and at the bottom of the plaque, diagonal wavy lines representing water.
History note: Louis-Fidel Debruge-Duménil Collection, Paris; sold Paris, Bonnefons de Lavialle, 23 January - 9 February and 4-12 March, 1850, Catalogue des objets d’art qui composent la collection Debruge Duménil, ADD; Lord Hastings; Frank McClean, Tunbridge Wells
Frank McClean Bequest
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1904)
by
McClean, Frank
Early 13th Century
Medieval
Circa
1200
CE
-
Circa
1210
CE
The matching gable end, formerly in the Keir Collection, is in the Thomson Collection in the Art Collection of Ontario, in Toronto.
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( two shades of blue, green, red, and white)
gold
Plaque
composed of
copper
At Apex
Height 24 cm
At Widest
Width 17.7 cm
Accession number: M.31-1904
Primary reference Number: 118316
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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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Accession Number: P.69-1949
Accession Number: 3716
Accession Number: P.70-1949
Accession Number: MS McClean 201.13c
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