HEAD OF SAINT PETER mitred in limestone sculpted in the round with slight traces of polychromy. Glabrous face with large almond-shaped eyes with tapered ends and a thin-lipped mouth with a kind expression; locks of hair protruding from the mitre and forming a rounded fringe above the forehead as well as sideburns in front of the ears; short triangular mitre with a single dewlap hanging from the neck. Cotentin, mid 14th century H. 33,5 cm (Slight accidents, small restorations on the edge of the mitre) There are several examples in the Cotentin region of sculpted stone representations of Saint Peter dating from the 14th century to which this beautiful mitred head can be linked. Also wearing a short, triangular, conical mitre, the first pope is often depicted in this region as beardless, as here, with almond-shaped eyes stretched towards the temples. One thinks in particular of the mitred head of the church of Beaumont-Hague (Manche) which one brings closer to the enthroned Saint Peter of Mesnil-Aubert (Manche) and to that of the parish church of Fournet (Calvados). The nature of the stone analysed by a geologist confirms this hypothesis: "fine limestone, light yellowish white, containing very small yellow dots and unidentifiable remains of foraminifera. It may be a Middle Jurassic limestone [which may correspond] to a very fine facies of the Caen stone".