Images of Medieval Art and Architecture

The Treasure of Saint Denis

Suger's Eagle


Images

Félibien's Engraving

Extant Object

Adapted from Félibien, Plate IV, Item EE

Paris, Louvre
MR 422

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Texts

Description

Vase of porphyry ornamented with a head of an eagle ofgilded vermeil. On it can be read these two lines:

Includi gemmis lapis iste meretur & auro:
Marmor set, sed in his marmore cavior est.

Félibien, pages 544. Translated by Jane Vadnal.


Subsequent History


Notes


Bibliography

Conway (1915), p. 118. Click here for text. Also, See page 140 (Click here for that passage)

Félibien, page 544.

Louvre, no. 31, pp 183-7.

Montesquiou-Fezensac, I and II, no. 28,. III pp 42-4, pl 23-5.


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Created by J Vadnal, July, 1998