Christ in Majesty
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- Verificato
- 9 giorni fa
- Ultimo cambio di stato
- 25 set 2026
- Fonte
- I dati di collezione del museo stesso
About the sculpture
This Anglo-Saxon plaque is probably from the first half of the 11th century and represents Christ in Majesty.
The function of the plaque remains unclear. Apparently too small to adorn the centre of a book-cover - the plaque was perhaps mounted on one side of the head of a metal tau-cross of similar design to the contemporary St Heribert tau-cross in Cologne. Alternatively it may have been set into a small reliquary or formed part of a pendant, held in place with metal sheets overlapping the stepped border.
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The figure style, the depiction of the fluttering folds of drapery below the left knee of the figure and the general type of Christ in Majesty with the tall, thin diptych book, link the plaque to Anglo-Saxon images in walrus ivory and manuscripts of the first half of the 11th century. It can be compared with the mid-eleventh-century stone relief of Christ in Barnack Church in Cambridgeshire.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Scheda
- Numero di inventario
- A.5-1955
What it shows
In catalogo
Fonti
- Victoria and Albert Museum: the museum's own open data · acquisita 9 giorni fa
- Immagine: Victoria and Albert Museum — © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
