IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 119325 accession number: M/P.24-1938 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 10 December 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Silver, parcel-gilt, bronze-gilt, wood and enamel; the wood crucifix is encased in bronze-gilt. Each arm of flattened hexagonal form terminates in a fleur-de-lys. Set into the bronze-gilt are oval panels of silver engraved and enamelled with flowers. At the end of each arm, at the top and centre, and twice on the stem are silver engraved and basse-taille enamelled quartrefoil plaques. In the front, behind the parcel-gilt model of Christ, the plaque represents the pelican in her piety, above is God the Father, on the left is the Virgin Mary, on the right is a female saint, possibly Mary Magdalene, under Christ's feet the images on the plaque are not decipherable, except for a scull, but applied on each side are two coats-of-arms for the Franciscan Order and the Frescobaldi family, at the base is a martyred saint. On the back the plaques represent, in the centre, the Pietá, above is a bishop, on the left an unidentified canonised monk, on the right St. Augustine, below are the Virgin and Child, and at the base is the Virgin Mary or female saint. The silver trumpet-shaped ocatagonal base with silver-gilt moulded borders is later. The later stand (A) is rectangular and of wood. The later box (B) is covered with leather and has two half lids, which are hinged and have catches; the interior is lined with white velvet. object type: silver, parcel-gilt, bronze-gilt, wood and enamel; the wood cross is encased in bronze-gilt, with applied silver and enamel plaques, and parcel-gilt model of Christ; and stands` on a later parcel-gilt octagonal foot. title: altar cross NOTES ----- type: history note value: not known before Leonard Daneham Cunliffe LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Leonard D. Cunliffe creditline: Leonard D. Cunliffe Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/119325 PEOPLE ------------------- Frescobaldi family Christ Virgin Mary God the Father Mary Magdalene St. Augustine monk SUBJECTS ------------------- Santa Croce, Florence Crucifixion Pietà Crucifixion Pietà CATEGORIES ------ category: silver DATING ------ creation date: 1500 - 1550 creation date earliest: 1500 creation date latest: 1550 culture: 16th Century, first half# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 51.6 dimension: Height units: in value: 20⅜ dimension: Width units: cm value: 29.1 dimension: Width units: in value: 11½ CITATIONS -------- Treasures of Cambridge. 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