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Description: | A cast copper-alloy religious figurine perhaps most likely to be a Saint or Apostle rather than Jesus and presumably mounted onto another object, possibly a wooden cross or perhaps a book cover. This figurine is most likely to be medieval and circa 13th century in date, its style is reminescient of limoge but it has no traces of enamel and could be a more local version of the style. It measures 66.4mm in height, 20mm in width and 7mm in thickness.
The figurine has a shaped front face and a flat back face, it depicts a standing facing figure with the right arm across the chest and the left arm bent at the elbow held outwards from the body the hand is holding something, possibly robes. The figure has an oval shaped head and wavy hair which frames the face like a halo, the face is small with a protruding triangular shaped nose and grooves indicating the eys and mouth. The figure is dressed in draped robes the folds of which are depicted by moulding. Traces of gilding can be seen on both faces. The figure is standing on a flat base which has a triangular tapering vertical projection extending beneath it.
There is an integral copper-alloy cylindrical rivet projecting from the back face of the centre of the base, above the tapering projection, surrounding this rivet there is active powdery green corrosion and other concreations of corrosion, this may be the remains of whatever this figurine was attached to originally. In the centre of the back face of the head there is a circular scar which seems most likely to be the remains of another integral cylindrical rivet, now missing. These two parallel rivets would therefore have been the means by which this figurine was attached to a larger object.
No parallel can be found for this figurine but from its style it is most likely to be medieval in date, have religious associations and functioned as a decorative mount on a larger object. | Subjects: | mount | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Minter, Faye - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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