Kitchen tympanum, Palais Jacques Coeur, Bourges, France

Detail of relief of servants working in a kitchen, with cauldron over the fire and people grinding with a pestle and mortar and wiping dishes, on the tympanum over the door leading to the kitchens, in the Palais Jacques Coeur, huge manor house built 1443-51 in Flamboyant Gothic style, on the Place Jacques Coeur, Bourges, France. Jacques Coeur personally instructed that the function of the room should be described in the tympanum of its door. Fulcanelli stated that Jacques Coeur was an alchemist and it is believed that this may also be a scene of alchemy. Jacques Coeur, 1395-1456, was a wealthy merchant and was made master of the mint to King Charles VII in 1438. The building is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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1443-51 Alchemical Alchemy Bourges Cauldron Centre-val Cher Civic Coeur Grinding Hermetic Mortar Pestle Tympanum

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