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Romanesque capital decorated with masks and foliage

 
 
 

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Romanesque capital decorated with masks and foliage in bluish-grey metamorphic stone covered with lighter crystals, probably gneiss, this capital is carved on three sides with a rounded basket decorated with rincels held between their jaws by monstrous masks located at the corners, under a rectangular abacus.

Metamorphic stone, probably Gneiss
Accidents and losses
Height: 21.50 cm - width and depth: 20 cm

Limousin, 12th century

Bibliography: Anne-Sophie Traineau-Durozoy. Jonah and the fish. Les Cahiers de Saint-Michel de Cuxa, Abbaye de Saint-Michel de Cuxa, 2017, 48, pp.115-127.

 

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