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Ornamental Fragment with a Grotesque Mask
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Ornamental Fragment with a Grotesque Mask

, France, c. 1550
Black and brown grisaille with silver stain on clear glass (an old lead repair of lead cutting the face in two removed and restored with glue)
12 x 9.7 cm.

Ornamental Fragment with a Grotesque Mask

Black and brown grisaille with silver stain on clear glass (an old lead repair of lead cutting the face in two removed and restored with glue)
France, c. 1550
12 x 9.7 cm.
$12000.00
This charming, unpublished fragment survives as an element from a vertical Renaissance border, the head of a “monster” with two fangs coming out of its mouth and below with foliate decoration in grisaille and colors.
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This charming, unpublished fragment survives as an element from a vertical Renaissance border, the head of a “monster” with two fangs coming out of its mouth and below with foliate decoration in grisaille and colors.  The grotesque is unusually fully, and finely modeled with a combination of bold cross-hatching and stick work.

Exhibited: 

Medieval Monsters, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa, October 12 to December 15, 2013 (Curator:  Sherry C.M. Lindquist)
https://figgeartmuseum.org/art/exhibitions/view/medieval-monsters/104

Literature:

Unpublished, for comparisons see Sherry C.M. Lindquist and Asa Simon Mittman, Medieval Monsters Terrors, Aliens, Wonders, New York, The Morgan Library & Museum, 2018.

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