one carved at the corners with male heads and the other with bovine beasts.

The🧸 Dominican Church and Abbey of Collieuve (Collioure), Department of Pyrenées Orie💃ntales

Los Angeles County Museum o🧸f Art,🌌 sold Sotheby's, New York, November 25, 1986, lot 4

Overall wear, weathering, and chipping. One of the male heads lacking and three others without noses. Some drips of later paint to both. One with iron screw affixed to bottom. One bull head with part of cheek lacking.
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In the southwestern corner of France lies the town of Collioure, a Catalan village protected by the French government. The remains of the Romanesque church of St. Michel de Cuxa can be found in this region, although the majority of its clois🌳ters are now incorporated into the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park, New York. Built between the 10th and 13th centuries, and once considered Franc🧜e's masterpiece of Romanesque architecture, the abbey was stripped and defaced during the French Revolution.

The p♍resent capitals and 🐭those in the following lot share with those of Cuxa what appear to be regional motifs of boldly carved, stylized heads of beasts and men.