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Title: Architectural ceiling boss with two dragons, probably from the Church of St. Andrews at Cullompton
Artist: Artist Unknown, England
Physical Description: Two rampant dragons with open wings, wide flared tails and red-painted eyes stand facing one another with a large plant form held between them.
Century: 15th Century
Object Creation Date: circa 1430
Accession Number: 1968/2.46
Medium and Support: wood with red polychrome
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Title: Architectural ceiling boss with four faces, probably from the Church of St. Andrew at Cullompton
Artist: Artist Unknown, England
Physical Description: This ceiling boss features four faces with traces of paint that are arranged in a radial pattern with the crowns of their heads converging on a single, central point. Two of the faces are female, identifiable by the wimples worn on their heads, while the other two, wearing small pointed caps and sporting beards, are male. The symmetrical regularity of the piece is counterbalanced by subtle asymmetries introduced by differences in detail and the sequence of facial types.
Century: 15th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1430
Accession Number: 1968/2.47
Medium and Support: wood with polychrome
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Title: Priest Celebrating a Mass (Leaf from the Tarleton Hours)
Artist: Anonymous French (Normandy)
Physical Description: This page of an illuminated manuscript on thin parchment is vertically oriented. Centered in the upper two-thirds of the page is a window-shaped scene of a priest celebrating mass. The priest, with red and white robes and a tonsure, holds up a communion wafer at an altar that has a bible and a communion goblet on it and an image of two figures with halos behind them. The altar and the priest’s robes are trimmed with gold leaf. Behind the priest are two kneeling figures, a man and a woman. They are in the interior of a gothic church, with stone vaulting above them. Below the scene are four lines of calligraphy with the first letter, a ‘D’, highly decorated. Decorative detailing surrounds the text and the scene. The left side consists of an ivy-like plant growing out of the "D", and the bottom and right sides have different foliate-derived design depicted in ink, tempera and gold.
Century: 15th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1430
Accession Number: 1968/2.43
Medium and Support: ink, tempera and gold on thin parchment
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