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LOT 2255
Collection of Tudor Period and Earlier Hooked Clothes Fasteners
CIRCA 8TH-16TH CENTURY A.D.
18 7/8 x 15 3/4 in. (4.29 kg total, 48 x 40 cm including frame).
Group of hooked tags and fasteners, mostly openwork castings with integral hook; mostly bronze but some early silver types and Tudor gilt metal domed types with applied filigree detailing; mounted on a fabric backing in a substantial glazed wooden display case with hinged lid; collector's title card.
ProvenanceAcquired in the 1970s-1980s.
Property of a Kent gentleman, a specialist medieval collector.
See Read, B., Hooked-Clasps and Eyes, Langport, 2008, for discussion.
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LOT 2255
Collection of Tudor Period and Earlier Hooked Clothes Fasteners
Estimate £1,000 - 1,400€1,160 - 1,620 (for guidance only)$1,350 - 1,890 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£500 (EUR 580; USD 675) +BP*
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Medieval Stained Glass Section of Woman About to be Martyred
Northern France, circa 1530 A.D.Estimate: £800 - 1,000 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
With a finely painted profile head of a young woman, her hair being roughly gripped by the large hand of a male executioner, mounted in a lead-came frame. 64 grams 10.5 cm
Tomkinson’s Stained Glass Ltd, 2011.
This meticulously painted fragment would originally have been part of a much larger scene detailing the life of a female martyr. Such narratives became popular in the later Middle Ages thanks to the widespread dissemination of collected accounts detailing the lives of saints, most famously the Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine. -
Medieval Seated Heraldic Lion Statuette
Circa 12th-14th century A.D.Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £75
Modelled in round on a discoid platform, engraved mane, head and leg details. 47 grams, 39 mm
Acquired on the UK art market in the 1980s. From an East Anglian private collection. -
Medieval Bronze Seal Matrix with I and Stars
Circa 14th-15th century A.D.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Chessman type with 'I' between starbursts, legend to border '*S' *AR*MUSE*' supplied with an impression. 13.4 grams, 24 mm
Found Romney Marsh area, Kent, 1990-2015. Property of a Kent gentleman, a specialist medieval collector.
