Skulptur

Wooden sculpture from the beginning of the 15th century. The sculpture should have belonged to a medieval altar cabinet, possibly together with sculpture UM000396 and UM000398. The sculpture depicts a female saint. The carving work is cut out in what is probably walnut and in a single piece. The figure is flat on the back with traces of tools. In the heads sits a wooden plug and remains of a linen cloth are left. In the headdress there are four holes. Tracks of a carving iron are found on the bonfire, mantle, face and hair. Thumb and index finger on the left hand are missing. The sculpture has originally been painted in several colours, polychrome. Below the coat of paint has been a glue-chalk shallow over the entire surface. Wire ropes from a linen cloth can be found on the right side of the robe. Immersions of a pattern board can be found at the base of the mantle furrow. In the face, pink color remains (carnation) on the right side and the nose, the far hairline, the cheeks and the outer sides of the neck. On the lips remains of red color. Brown pigments and remnants of a shiny surface are found in the hair. The mantle has traces of a pattern board with red and green pigments. On the outside of the mantle are traces of red, brown and blue color residues stored on each other, the inside is blue. The sculpture has had a complete grounding of glue-chalk. The headgear appears to have been made up of a crown of walls, suggesting martyrdom or royal birth. The sculpture bears traces of blue and red paint. (Gardell 1933). See image in photograph UMFA54467: 0009, the left sculpture. From the Handwritten Catalogue 1957-1958: Eye Image, Krokstad H. 79.5 cm; is wearing the suit m. the right hand, the left partially turned off; the paint flaked., the meshes. In the 1869 printed catalog the object is presented as no. F7. “Pictures in wood af an unfamiliar saint, from?.” Thus, as early as 1869, the museum of Uddevalla is unclear about its provenance. In Norberg (1939) and Gardell (1929 and 1933) sculpture UM000398 is assigned to Brastad Church. In Knut Adrian Adersson’s 1915 catalogue is under I: 124.15: “wooden picture of unfamiliar saint from Brastad [overlined] (Krokstad) old church. Gift of Johan Andersson was replaced in 1862.” The Topographical Archives' copies of documents for the churches of Bohusläns show: Brastad Church: "List of loose objects of historical or artistic value that are listed in the church inventory. Brastad Church, August 1918: Hanna Eggertz, filming. Kand The old church of Brastad is housed in the Uddevalla Museum: Church Bench 1670 Maria Magdalena and female saint, wooden sculptures, omkr. 1500. Epitafium over Peder Bagge (+ 1606) ' It is unclear from where Eggertz retrieved the information above, but they are probably from Uddevalla Museum catalogs. In Brastad Church’s older inventories, it is impossible to find out about sculptures or altar cabinets. The inventories of Krokstad Church include a note from 1830: “Altartafla does not exist. The old one was crushed during a major church repair in 1814. Blott some pictures af tree qwarsta on AltarBordet.” It is not possible to determine whether it is UM000397 and UM000398. The medieval church of Skredsvik was demolished in 1855-56. The medieval church of Brastad was demolished in 1876-77. The medieval church of Krokstad was demolished in 1863. See photos of the object in the Uddevalla Museum ecclesiastical exhibition 1920, UMFA54467: 0009. Film No. 484, 485 Cf. additional data during UM000396 Lappdirectory: 13 Literature: Andersson Aron, Medieval Wooden Sculpture in Sweden, vol. III Late Lture 1980, page 184, Gardell, Sölve: The medieval altar cabinet of Bohusläns. An orientation overview. Göteborg and Bohusläns Fornminesförening’s Magazine 1929, page 40. Gardell, Sölve: The Ecclesiastical Art in Uddevalla Museum. A Guidance for Visiting, no. 11 p. 66.s. 1933. Norberg, Rune: The medieval wooden sculpture of Bohusläns. Göteborg and Bohusläns Ancient Memory Society Journal 1939, pages 29 et seq. Olsson, Per-Allan: The Churches of Skredsvik, Höås and Herrestad - short history and description. Gothenburg 2006, pages 14-15.