English Medieval Silver Chessman Type Seal Matrix for Christine de Wattone

EARLY 15TH CENTURY A.D.

1 in. (14.7 grams, 24 mm).

A substantial silver chessman-type seal matrix with pierced trefoil finial, four points close to the rim for alignment; central cinquefoil with pointillé edges, groups of three pellets between petals, border with Lombardic script legend '* SIGILLVM : CHRISTINE DE WATTONE' (seal of Christine of Watton).

Provenance

The Matrix Collection, formed by David Morris since the late 1980s.
Found at the village of Repps-with-Bastwick near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, UK, before 20 February 1996.
Anonymous vendor, Phillips, 20 February 1996, lot 12.
Matrix Collection catalogue no.0193.
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

The market town of Watton is sited in Norfolk and, during the pre-Conquest reign of Edward the Confessor, supported two manors.

CONDITION

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