Medieval Carved Stone Head of a Cleric

14TH-15TH CENTURY A.D.

13 3/4 in. (6.85 kg, 35 cm including stand).

Corbel with head of a cleric forming the crest of two angled lateral facets; wearing a chaperon with band of inset rectangles to the brow; mounted on a custom-made stand. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Acquired Trevanion & Dean, UK, 15 October 2016, lot 395.
Property of a Kent collector.

Literature

Cf. similar headgear on a slightly earlier stone bust in Musée National du Moyen Âge, Thermes et Hôtel de Cluny, Paris originally placed on Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris, west façade.

CONDITION

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