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拍品专文
An alabaster figure of Saint Fiacre that relates quite closely to the figure of Saint Anthony Abbot is illustrated in F. Cheetham, English Medieval Alabasters, Oxford, 1984, cat. no. 31. Both figures share the squared jaw, columnar heavy vertical folds of drapery and have a lappet hanging down in front. Cheetham dates the figure of Saint Fiacre on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum to the 15th Century.
The figure of Saint James is most likely James the Great, also known as Saint James Compestela. His attrubutes of a pilgrim's staff and book are held prominently. During the Middle Ages, the shell was first associated with pilgrimages made to the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain where the saint's relics were kept. Later, the shell would be more usually identified with pilgrimage in general, though in England it appears to have been most particularly associated with pilgrimages to Walsingham, Norfolk (B. Spencer, Medieval Pilgrim Badges from Norfolk, Norfolk Museums Service, 1980, p. 16, no. 38).
The figure of Saint James is most likely James the Great, also known as Saint James Compestela. His attrubutes of a pilgrim's staff and book are held prominently. During the Middle Ages, the shell was first associated with pilgrimages made to the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain where the saint's relics were kept. Later, the shell would be more usually identified with pilgrimage in general, though in England it appears to have been most particularly associated with pilgrimages to Walsingham, Norfolk (B. Spencer, Medieval Pilgrim Badges from Norfolk, Norfolk Museums Service, 1980, p. 16, no. 38).