Three Figures
Unknown
ca. 1200 · Copper: repoussé, chased, engraved, scraped, stippled, gilt;blue-black glass beads glass · Medieval Art
Bowing to the left with downcast eyes and downturned mouths, the three men apparently witness a sad scene, perhaps the burial of a saint or the death of the Virgin. They may have been fixed to a large reliquary or an altar.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- ca. 1200
- Medium
- Copper: repoussé, chased, engraved, scraped, stippled, gilt;blue-black glass beads glass
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Credit line
- Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
