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hard Philp Gallery
English (Yorkshire)
Corbel of wolf
12th century
Limestone
Height: 22 cm
This head of a wolf has its mouth open with teeth locked together at the sides. The flat top of the sculpture would have been set as a corbel under a roofline of a church.
It is carved with a surface of low-relief ridges in a loose composition that is in keeping with the ‘all-over design’ of the Yorkshire school of Romanesque sculpture. This northern English region followed national trends in sculptural decoration but executed with a naive expression most likely developed by the freedom in large workshops, established in order to decorate an extrodinary number of new parish churches in Yorkshire in the middle of the twelfth century.
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