A Four-Sided French Gothic Limestone Capital or Pedestal from a Shrine or Chapel, Northern France, c.1280–1350A striking and atmospheric four sided French Gothic limestone capital or pedestal from Northern France, c. 12801350. Carved in deep relief, this substantial architectural fragment originally formed part of a shrine or chapel interior. Each face presents a different holy figure, the iconography strongly suggesting a specific group of saints familiar in medieval Northern France: a monastic cephalophore, robed and carrying his own decapitated head,