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With a D-section decorated hoop with scrolled shoulders, a tapering bezel with geometric motifs and set with an intaglio bearing a kneeling warrior motif. 8.21 grams, 32.16 mm overall, 17.78 x 19.26 mm internal diameter (approximate size British R 1/2, USA 8 3/4, Europe 19.38, Japan 18)



Ex West London, UK, collection, 1990s.

Comprising: a clay pipe commemorating General Gordon; a cast iron caltrop; two plaster impressions from seals; a forged iron caltrop; a green-glazed figural jug. 540 grams total, 5.3-12.7 cm



From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s.

Hollow cylindrical socket, engraved and decorated in champlevé enamel with scrolling foliage and pointed leaves reserved in the metal against grounds of deep blue and turquoise. 15.77 grams, 47 mm



Acquired on the European art market. UK, private collection.

The socket formed the lower portion of a pastoral crozier, connecting the crozier head to its wooden staff. The reserved gilt foliage and blue enamel grounds correspond with the decoration of surviving early thirteenth-century Limoges croziers, including the crozier associated with Abbot Bertrand de Malsang in the Louvre, Musée du Louvre, MRR 810.