"We're seeing in the angels what we see in one another when we're in difficult times."
Curator Barbara Boehm on "Plaque with Censing Angels."
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What are the angels on this enameled plaque bearing witness to?
"We’re seeing in the angels what we see in one another when we’re in difficult times."
Barbara Drake Boehm
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Barbara Drake Boehm
Paul and Jill Ruddock Senior Curator for The Met Cloisters
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French
ca. 1170–80