Golden rings

From time to time I notice the golden ring at Buckfast abbey, otherwise a replica of the Aachen Barbarossaleuchter, to be found, surprisingly enough, at Aachen. See for example, reference 1.

So this afternoon, I was turning the pages of my book of Annunciations from Phaidon, noticed at reference 2, and I came across the image above, taken from an illuminated manuscript of 1452, the work of one Jean Fouquet. That is to say, the Book of Hours of one Étienne Chevalier, 1452-60, held in the Musée Condé at Chantilly. Which, as it happens, is Epsom's twin town in France, a twinning celebrated by Chantilly Way - which connects Hook Road with Horton Retail and Horton Lane. A road which contains a fine line of mature trees, presumably a relic of Long Grove Hospital.

An image which suggests that that church ornaments like the Aachen Barbarossaleuchter were not so uncommon after all: this one is nothing like as grand, but there are similarities. When will I next come across another?

Colours not much like those in the Phaidon version, but who can know now what the original might have looked like new. And we do know that colour reproduction on computers is not always as good as it might appear at first glance.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/11/aachen-barbarossaleuchter.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv2.blogspot.com/2013/05/ascolan-cucumber.html.

Reference 3: http://musee-conde.fr/fr/. I think this is the right place, but search fails to find anything to do with this image. Let's hope it is their search engine rather than my information.

Reference 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hours_of_%C3%89tienne_Chevalier.