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Description: | Artist: Unknown, workshop; Date(s): circa 1200 - circa 1210; Classification(s): enamels, plaque, champlev?, copper, champlev?, engraved, enamelled in two shades of blue, green, red, and white, and gilt; Acquisition: bequeathed by McClean, Frank (1837-1904), 1904, Frank McClean Bequest [M.31-1904]
Description: Plaque from the gable end of a reliquary. Copper, champlev?, engraved, enamelled, in two shades of blue, green, red, and white, and gilt. Pentagonal with ten small circular holes situated at each corner and half-way along each side. Two crowned maryrs wearing long gowns, and each holding a palms in his left hand, are seated on a cross-hatched plank surrounded by scrolling stems bearing leaves, and between the figures, two cones, reserved in a blue ground. Under their feet is a gilt band bearing the inscription EXVLTABVNT: D?O OSSA: HVMILIATA (The humiliated bones shall rejoice in the Lord) . Below it is a wavy band over two skewed rectangular coffins containing bones, and at the bottom of the plaque, diagonal wavy lines representing water. | 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=early 13th Century; start=1200; end=1210 | 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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