IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 139831 accession number: M.2-1924 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 8 March 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Copper, champlevé, engraved, chased, enamelled, and gilded. The shaft is in two sections divided by a knop of flattened sherical form with a central ridge. The knop is of an openwork design of eight biting beasts, their tails ending in foliated scrolls. They are engraved with a scale pattern, except for a plain band on their back which is studded with three small turquoise pastes. The lower or socket part of the shaft is decorated with blue enamel with a foliated scroll pattern reserved in the metal. To it are attached three beasts (one missing) with their heads downwards and their tails curled above touching the lower part of the knop; the back of each is set with turquoise pastes. The crook which springs from a collar of leaves, has a serrated outer edge, and is decorated with a scale pattern in blue enamel; it terminates in a serpent's head. The volute contains the winged figure of St Michael plunging a spear vertically through the back of the dragon. Its body is marked with scales except for a plain band running down either side which is studded with turquoise pastes, and its tail passes through the curl of the volute terminating in a spray of foliage fixed to the stem of the crosier. object type: copper, champlevé, engraved, chased, enamelled and gilt, the volute terminating in a serpent's head, and having a two-legged dragon inside it being attacked with a staff by St Michael title: Crozier head NOTES ----- type: history note value: Countess Chandon de Briailles; purchased from Félix Joubert (1872–1953), Chelsea LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Rt. Hon. F. Leverton-Harris STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/139831 PEOPLE ------------------- Chandon de Briailles, Countess St Michael SUBJECTS ------------------- dragon serpent killing dragon serpent killing CATEGORIES ------ category: enamels DATING ------ creation date: 1220 - 1240 creation date earliest: 1220 creation date latest: 1240 culture: 13th Century, first half culture: Medieval CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown CITATIONS -------- Les Crosses limousines du XIIIe siècle The Leverton Harris Collection The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Medieval Scultures and Works of Art I Turned It Into a Palace, Sydney Cockerell and the Fitzwilliam Museum Catalogue of Pastoral Staves Smalti-Avori del Museo d'Arte Antica Saint Michel dans les crosses limousines, styles et chronologie Crediton: the Story of Two Helmets L'Oeuvre de Limoges, Emaux limousins du Moyen Age La crosse et l'anneau, éclats médiévaux du trésor de Lescar The Neutelings Collection. 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