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Sold for (Inc. bp): £312
EARLY 14TH CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (12.8 grams, 25 mm).
A bronze ellipsoid seal matrix with pierced quatrefoil finial; incuse motif of Mary seated with infant Jesus on her lap, star above her shoulder, kneeling robed and tonsured figure beside her with hand raised in prayer; Lombardic script legend to the border with beaded bands '* S' WILL'I DE ThORNTONE' (seal of William of Thornton).
PROVENANCE:
The Matrix Collection, formed by David Morris since the late 1980s.
Matrix Collection catalogue no.909.
Many of the seals within the collection were published in a book titled 'The Matrix Collection', by David Morris in 2012.
Accompanied by a copy of the illustrated collection notes.
FOOTNOTES:
Thornton is a village in West Yorkshire, close to the city of Bradford and mentioned in Domesday Book; it was where the Brontë sisters spent their early lives before moving to Haworth.
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