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Quatrefoil Plaque: An Angel holding a Cross: M.36-1904

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Current Location: Gallery 32 (Rothschild)

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Quatrefoil Plaque: An Angel holding a Cross

Maker(s)

Workshop: Unknown

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Description

Copper, engraved, champlevé, enamelled, and gilded. On a metal ground, engraved with circles and quatrefoils reserved in a striated ground, is a half-length figure of an angel holding a cross in his right hand and looking towards his right. He wears a dark blue mantle borderd with paler blue and white; his wings are enamelled in three shades of blue, red, and white; his hair and eyes are dark blue; his nimbus turquoise with a yellow rim. Round the edge of the plaque is a wavy border enamelled in bands of red, dark blue, white and truquoise. There is a small hole at the top, and four others at intervals for attachment

Notes

History note: Holingworth Magniac, Colworth, Bedfordshire; sold Christie’s, 2, 4-8 and 11-15 July 1892, Catalogue of the renowned collection of works of art chiefly formed by the late Hollingworth Magniac Esq. (known as the Colworth Collection), 6th Day, 8 July, p. 160, lot 665; sold for £14.14.0 to Frank McClean, Tonbridge Wells..

Legal notes

Frank McClean bequest

Measurements and weight

Height: 8 cm
Height: 3⅛ in
Width: 8.1 cm
Width: 3¼ in

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1904) by McClean, Frank

Dating

13th Century
Medieval
Circa 1200 CE - 1300 CE

Note

The plaque was probably attached to a Cross

People, subjects and objects depicted

Components of the work

Decoration composed of enamel gold

Materials used in production

Copper

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: M.36-1904
Primary reference Number: 139839

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 12 November 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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