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Some further Notes on the Crucifix on the Lily

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

W. L. Hildburgh
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In a paper read in May 1924, and subsequently printed in Archaeologia, I discussed the somewhat uncommon representations of the crucified Christ attached to a lily-plant, either directly or through an interjacent cross identified with the plant. In that paper I cited eight such representations—one carved in alabaster, two in other stones, and one in wood; one painted on a wooden panel; and three in glass windows. All of these were clearly English in origin. Since it was published, three further examples of this curious flower of English iconography have come to my notice.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , January 1932 , pp. 24 - 26
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1932

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References

page 24 note 1 ‘An Alabaster Table of the Annunciation with the Crucifix: a Study in English Iconography’, Archaeologia, lxxiv, 203–32.

page 24 note 2 In Antiq. Journ. vii (1927), 72 seq.

page 25 note 1 Archaeologia, op. cit. 213.

page 25 note 2 From Bouchier, E. S., Stained Glass of the Oxford District, Oxford, 1918, 43Google Scholar.

page 25 note 3 From a negative specially made for me.

page 25 note 4 Cf. Mere, G., ‘Some Examples of Minor Buddhist Art in Tokugawa Times,’ in Trans. Japan Society (London), xxiii (1925–6), 11Google Scholar. In my study of the lilycrucifix I have noted (p. 220), quoting A. de Gubernatis, Mythologie des plantes, ii, Paris, 1882, 199, 201, that ‘In the Occident, there have become attached to the lily many of the same popular beliefs as have been attached in the Orient to the lotus; and the lotus is said to have been used in the latter as a symbol of generation’; and, further, that Saintyves, P., in Les vierges mères, Paris, 1908Google Scholar, says (p. 109) that ‘Mary sometimes holds a lotus instead of a lily’.

page 26 note 1 Mere, op. cit., 8. The Shingon sect was founded about the beginning of the ninth century, and was based on the principles of the Indian ϒoga school (cf. ibid., loc. cit.).

page 26 note 2 Cf. Hildburgh, W. L., ‘Some Parallels between Minor Superstitions of Japan and of Great Britain’, in Trans. Japan Society (London), xvii (1919), 2–29Google Scholar.