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2010
Table Nave
Early 15th century
Brass
Dimensions: L 54 cm x W 32 cm
Height: 28 cm
Weight: 2,695 kg

Inspired by "The sudden death of the Count of Foix", Chronicles of Froissart, iconography mid 15th century.

A nave is a piece of goldsmith in the form of a ship that sits on the table of honour during a banquet. It allows to store the cutlery of a high nobility, and are usually made of gold, silver, gilded copper or rock crystal.

"La mort soudaine du Comte de Foix", Chroniques de Froissart, iconographie mi XVème siècle

 2019

Table Nave

Early 15th century

Brass and beads

Dimensions: L 55cm x L 35cm.

Height: 35cm

Weight: 2.510 kg

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Inspired by the folio of Tristan de Léonois

First quarter of the 15th

Banquet at home of Guidaban’s father

(bnf fr.101.fol.707v)

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 2019

Table Nave

Mid - 15th century

Brass and chasing

Dimensions: L 35cm x L 25cm.

Height: 25cm

Weight: 2 kg

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 2020

Table Nave

Mid - 15th century

Brass and beads

Dimensions: L 35cm x L 25cm.

Height: 30cm

Weight: 2 kg

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 2021

Table Nave

Mid - 15th century

Brass and chasing

Dimensions: L 40cm x L 25cm.

Height: 30cm

Weight: 2.5 kg

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Visible at the Château du Haut-Koenigsbourg

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 2021

Table Nave

Mid - 15th century

Brass and chasing

Gold and silver leaf

Dimensions: L 54cm x L 28cm.

Height: 36cm

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Inspired by folio 298r ( How the noble King Alexander was poisoned, illustration from a book by Jean Wauquelin, The History of the Great Alexander, 1460 )

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Visible at Belleperche Abbey - Museum of Table Art, in Cordes Tolosannes

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 2021

Table Nave

Mid-15th century inspiration

Brass, copper and chasing

Dimensions: L 55cm x W 25cm.

Height: 70cm

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Private collection

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 2021

Table Nave

Late 14th century

Brass and chasing

Dimensions: L 58cm x W 25cm.

Height: 76cm

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Inspired by the nave of Archbishop Pedro Tenorio, 1370-1400, Spain, Toledo Cathedral (91.5cm x 64cm)

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 2022

Table Nave

Mid-15th century inspiration

Brass

Dimensions: L 35cm x W 20cm.

Height: 30cm

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 2022

Table Nave

Mid-15th century

Brass, chasing, rock crystal, cultured pearls, red glass beads, lapis lazuli

Bronze dragon from Qualis Arma. Leaf silvering

Dimensions: L 45cm x W 15cm.

Height: 30cm

Weight: 4.5kg

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Inspired: Drawing by Pisanello Antonio (around 1395 - around 1455, collections.louvre.fr)

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2024

Table Nave and Salt cellar

Inspired by the end of the 14th century

Brass and chasing

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Dimensions:

- Nave: L 40cm x W 20cm

Height: 33cm

​- Salt cellars: Diameter 9cm

Height: 9cm

© 2019, Aerarius Faber

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