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Crozier Head with Dragon and Other Animals

1858, after original of 10th - 12th century
Plaster cast of original ivory carving
State: Reproduction

6 in. x 3 9/16 in. (15.2 cm x 9 cm)

Bryn Mawr College
Accession Number: 1858.136.1
Acquisition Date: 1908
Geography: Europe, Republic of Ireland, Munster, Cork, Aghadoe
Classification: Fine and Visual Arts; Sculptures; Fictile Ivories
Culture/Nationality: Irish
Collection: Fictile Ivories
Findspot: Aghadoe Cathedral ruins

Description: Cast of a crozier head with a dragon swallowing a man, other animals, interlaced scrolls, and rectangular openwork after an original of unknown location; formerly in the Meyrick Collection. Description: whorl to left of pole. "The top of the stem and the volute of this staff are ornamented with interlaced ribbon patterns, composed of monstrously attenuated animals, one of which has the head extended outwards towards the whorl, seizing the top of a large dragon’s head, with which the volute terminates, having wide open jaws and great teeth, in the mouth of which struggles a male bearded figure, with the body greatly bent backwards so as to form the continuation of the volute; on the outside of the top of the stem and of the volute are a series of pierced holes, thus T (upside-down T) T (upside-down T) ; the outer bar of the pattern is, however, broken off in some parts, so that the top especially seems as if crowned with a battlemented wall." (Westwood p. 263-264)

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  • plaster - Refers to a soft, plastic material that can be spread or daubed on a wall, ceiling, or other surface, where it afterwards hardens. In the context of art and architecture, it generally refers specifically to a mixture of water, lime, and sand, often combined with other materials, such as animal hair, to give the resulting material strength, texture, and if the surface is to be painted, porosity.
  • Plaster casts
  • representation - A manner of expression by the artist in which the subject matter is presented so that the observer is reminded of actual visible forms. However, the subject represented may or may not exist in the visible world. For example, representations may include presentations of subject matter that are invisible to the eye, such as emotions or imaginary events, as if they are visible.

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The following Bibliography exist for this object:
  • J. O. Westwood, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum G. E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoods. London, England, 1876
    Page Number: 263-264, no. 746

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