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LOT 1700
Anglo-Norman Bronze Scabbard Terminal with Advancing Beast
11TH-12TH CENTURY A.D.
2 3/8 in. (31.8 grams total, 59 mm wide including stand).
A Romanesque chape for a dagger sheath comprising a C-section openwork bifacial advancing beast in crouching pose bearing a lobed figure on its back; extending to the rear on each side, a slender balustered arm with leaf-shaped finial; mounted on a custom-made display stand.
ProvenanceFound Essex, 1997.
Property of a Sussex gentleman.
See Bishop, B., Martial Identity in the Early Medieval Period: Classification and Analysis of Dual-Faced Scabbard Mounts from the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries AD, University of Reading MA Thesis.
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LOT 1700
Anglo-Norman Bronze Scabbard Terminal with Advancing Beast
Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
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