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Description: | Artist: Unknown, workshop;
Production Place: Limoges; Date(s): circa 1200 - 1300; Classification(s): enamels, plaque, champlevé enamelling; Acquisition: bequeathed by McClean, Frank, 1904, Frank McClean bequest [M.36-1904]
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 | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | Unknown plaque enamels | Temporal: | name=13th Century; start=1200; end=1300 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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