Bringing the Holy Land Home: The Crusades, Chertsey Abbey, and the Reconstruction of a Medieval Masterpiece

Relief with Addorsed Ducks (DO BZ.1936.51)

By Jayme Anastasi '23

This roundel reveals the transfer of silk motifs across media, as similar roundels with addorsed animals were common in silks woven in the eastern Mediterranean. In addition, as this sculpture may be from a pulpit or an ambo, it suggestst the use of eastern Mediterranean silks in Western European church environments.

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