October 5, 2019

Award of the Argent Cresset - October 2019

The Award of the Argent Cresset is an award given by the Baron and Baroness of Cleftlands to individuals who make efforts to learn and teach the arts within the Barony.
  • Source: Catalog of Illuminated Manuscripts, British Library
  • Title: Gospel Lectionary, Use of Paris ('Quatrième Évangéliaire de la Sainte-Chapelle')
  • Origin: France, Central (Paris)
  • Date: c. 1285-1920
The Award of the Argent Cresset was created on pergamenata with Windsor-Newton gouache and Speedball calligraphy ink. The text reads as follows:
Draw near to hear the words of Their Excellencies Crispin and Gianna, Baron and Baroness of the Cleftlands. It is proper to honor those gentles who make efforts to learn and teach the arts which enrich the splendor of our fair barony. Therefore, we recognize Jaquelinne la Deiciere as the premier recipient of our Award of the Argent Cresset of the Cleftlands. We grant the right to bear the badge: Fieldless, a cresset argent enflamed proper, within and conjoined to an annulet argent estencilly gules. Done by our hands on the fifth day of October, Anno Societatis 54 at our Standard Bearers Baronial Championships.
Finished work.
Inspiration piece.