The "virtues" of a Blackwater bowl

Author

Bourke, Cormac

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Archaeology Ireland. 1991, Num. 3, Vol. 5, p. 22, 2 ill.

ISSN

0790-892X

Abstract (en)

Describes the 12th c. bronze handwashing bowl incised with female personifications of the Virtues, imported perhaps from Germany and turned into a hanging bowl by a 12th c. Irish craftsman. (Found near Charlemont, County Armagh; now in the Ulster Museum, Belfast).

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 300-1400 -- Decorative arts -- Metalwork -- United Kingdom
• Bowls
• Hanging bowls
• 1100-1200
• Germany
• Personification
• Metalwork
• Great Britain
• Bronze
• Virtues
• Reuse
• Charlemont (GBR)
• Ulster Museum||Belfast (GBR)

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 300-1400 -- Arts décoratifs -- Arts du métal -- Royaume-Uni
• Jatte
• Vase suspendu
• 1100-1200
• Allemagne
• Personnification
• Art du métal
• Grande-Bretagne
• Bronze [ma]
• Vertus
• Réemploi
• Charlemont (GBR)
• Ulster Museum||Belfast (GBR)

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19921001-00430272

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