Angel playing rebec

Unknown


Item type:
architectural object
Date of creation:
second half, 15th century
Technique / Medium:
stone carving

    Item location

  • All Saints Church (Broad Chalke, Wiltshire, England)
    Corbel supporting a nave roof wall post, south 4

Description

Rebec with a very clear step in the belly; central rose with 5-pointed star tracery and outer ring in the upper level of the belly and two C-holes in the lower level, tailpiece combined with bridge; held vertically upwards beside the shoulder; a heavy bow in the right hand.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Rebec [3202]

Bibliographic references

Montagu, Jeremy and Gwen Montagu. Minstrels & angels: Carvings of musicians in medieval English churches (Berkeley, Calif.: Fallen Leaf Press, 1998) 28, plate 60. ISBN 0914913409. RILM 1999-22611.

RIdIM record id

4195