Record ID: DUR-6A4CE7
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Published
A circular, cast copper alloy mount, with enamelling on the front face. The general style, decorative content and use of enamel suggests that it was made at the Limoges school in France, probably in the 12th or 13th century AD. As with many of the Limoges pieces, it seems likely that it would have decorated a reliquary (religious casket) or a Christian book. The mount is circular and the front is convex. The design in champlevé enamel is a trefoil, with a circle in the centre containing a quatrefoil. The quatrefoil has red enamel at the centre, then a band of dark blue, one of gr…
Created on: Friday 19th November 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 20th July 2011
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Record ID: DUR-11FEB4
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy silvered mount from a Limoges cross or casket. A hollow-backed half-round standing figure. The head extends out of the body; the features are crudely defined with circular hollows for the eyes (which may have had insets in) and a raised sub-triangle for a nose. The mouth may have been a grooved line but this is not clear. The body has raised lines leaving cells which would have been filled with enamel. On this example they are quite abstract but from other more realistic parallels it is clear that they are meant to represent a robe. The upper half of the body is separat…
Created on: Tuesday 10th August 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 20th July 2011
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