Mace (for Westminster Abbey)

Designed by George Edward Kruger Gray

Date: 1945
Usually date of exhibition rather than production

Object class: religious and ritual equipment

Object type: mace

Material: metal - bronze, wood - ebony

Technique: carved, enamelled, relief, assembled

Description: Tapered and fluted ebony staff surmount by two bronze collars and a bronze ferrule surmounted by a gilt pommel. The latter containing eight concave ovals into which eight enamelled shields are inserted. The finial is topped by a figure of St. Edward the Confessor.

Notes: The craftsmen responsible for its execution were William Morris and Co. (Westminster) Ltd.

Citing this record

'Mace (for Westminster Abbey)', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=ann_1277155528, accessed 30 Mar 2023]