Carved Stone Italian Plague Marker d.1654

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Carved Stone Italian Plague Marker d.1654A remarkable example of a 17th Century carved stone Italian Plague Marker, dated 1654. Such markers were often used during periods of widespread disease, particularly the bubonic plague, to commemorate the dead or indicate mass burial sites. On one side of the carving, a detailed depiction of the Crucified Christ is visible, with His outstretched body and a skull and crossbones beneath Him. The skull and crossbones, a common memento mori symbol,

Chloë is inspired by the great lemon collections of the Renaissance

A delicate Gustavian commode in original light powder blue-paint with Greco-Roman details including winged lions paw feet gilded in silver

Over centuries of devotion and exposure

Created from cast iron and painted white

In his book on Aesthetics

Dabbing his eyes with his blood red robe representing the blood of Christ is John the Evangelist

The edges are bordered in bands of blue and ochre

Sidney Jackson suggested that”[…] the cult of the human head and a belief in its evil-averting or luck-bringing powers was so deeply-rooted in local native tradition - fostered by the self-contained isolation of the region - that it has remained there as a virtually indestructible aspect of folklore and superstition […] - Dr Anne Ross

within a parterre

“Britain

a small armorial plaque surmounting the top

with a scalloped carved stone edge

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