Details

Object type

column

Place Associated

France, Chartres (place of manufacture)

Date

1145-1150

Materials

stone

Dimensions

overall: 690 mm x 180 mm x 180 mm 33000 g

Description

Octagonal stone column, carved on all sides with quatrefoil design. Dowel hole in top and base. Said to have been removed from Chatres Cathedral during restorations by the architect, Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (d.1879) and acquired by Madame Rahmet of Paris. Similar to columns supporting statues at the west doorways (Royal Portals) of Chatres. These portals are rare survivals from the original twelfth century structure, which was devastated by fire in 1194 and extensively rebuilt in the thirteenth century.

Viollet-le-Duc restored a number of prominent French medieval buildings, many of which had fallen into ruin or been damaged during the French Revolution, including Notre-Dame de Paris, Saint Denis and Sainte-Chapelle.

Provenance: Mme Rahmet, Paris; Collection R. Paris: Estate of a Viennese Doctor (Nachlass Eines Wiener Artztes), Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 30 August–4 September 1937, lot 405, pl.4; John Hunt (1900–76); from whom purchased by Sir William Burrell on 24 July 1950 for £130.

Credit Line/Donor

Gifted by Sir William and Lady Burrell to the City of Glasgow, 1944

Collection

Burrell Collection: Stone, Marble, Slate, etc

ID Number

44.52.1

Location

Burrell Collection