Ceramic Ireland Cross Plaque
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This wall plaque will stand out hanging anywhere from a bedroom to an office. It is made from Ceramic and is part of the Clara Crafts collection from Royal Tara. The Cross is decorated with Celtic designs that are found in the Book of Kells.
The writing that says Ireland is in a traditional Gaelic font. This plaque is hand painted and finished to perfection; it would make a great gift for any occasion.
High Cross:
High Crosses are the primary surviving monumental works of Insular art, and the largest number in Britain survive from areas that remained under Celtic Christianity until relatively late. High Crosses exist from the 7th century in Ireland, and were later seen in Scotland, Wales and the rest of Britain, especially Northumbria, and some examples are also found on Continental Europe where the style was taken by the Irish monks. Most Irish High Crosses have the distinctive shape of the ringed Celtic Cross, and they are generally larger and more massive, and feature more figural decoration, than those elsewhere. They have probably more often survived as well; most recorded crosses in Britain were destroyed or damaged by iconoclasm after the Reformation.
The ring initially served to strengthen the head and the arms of the High Cross, but it soon became a decorative feature as well. The High Crosses were status symbols, either for a monastery or for a sponsor or patron, Preaching crosses, and may have had other functions. The early 8th century crosses had only geometric motifs, but from the 9th and 10th century, biblical scenes were carved on the crosses. There were no crosses made after the 12th century, until the Celtic Revival, when similar crosses began to be erected in various contexts.
Anglo-Saxon crosses were often much smaller, though when, as with the Ruthwell Cross and Bewcastle Cross, they were geographically close to areas of the Celtic Church, they seem to have been larger, perhaps to meet local expectations. Carved figures in these large examples are much larger than the Irish equivalents of the same period - only some very late Irish crosses show equally large figures. Decoration is usually of vine-leaf patterns, not interlace, although the placement and effect from a distance is similar to Celtic examples. Smaller examples may have only had such decoration, and inscriptions, which are much more common on Anglo-Saxon than Irish crosses.
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