Gothic Bishop's Head - Burgundy, Early 14th Century

This very beautiful Gothic bishop's head was sculpted in fine Burgundy limestone. Wearing a miter revealing significant remnants of his early polychromy, our clerk displays the fine, idealized features of early 14th-century french Gothic sculpture, marked by elongated half-moon eyes, a straight nose and a small mouth with full lips. This pleasant face adorned with an elegant full beard is framed by the hair of the bishop which escapes from his headdress in two soft locks releasing his ears and in a small notched fringe, two recurring motifs in the sculpture of the 13th and 14th centuries.