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Quatrefoil Plaque: An Angel holding a Cross
Workshop: Unknown
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
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..
Frank McClean bequest
Height: 8 cm
Height: 3⅛ in
Width: 8.1 cm
Width: 3¼ in
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1904) by McClean, Frank
13th Century
Medieval
Circa
1200
CE
-
1300
CE
The plaque was probably attached to a Cross
Decoration composed of enamel gold
Accession number: M.36-1904
Primary reference Number: 139839
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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