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LOT 0389
Late Medieval Period Gold Signet Ring with Arabic Inscription
15TH-16TH CENTURY A.D.
3/4 in. (8.13 grams, 20.48 mm overall, 17.47 mm internal diameter (approximate size British M, USA 6, Europe 12.46, Japan 12)).
With D-section hoop and disc bezel, incised nasta'liq inscription. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom an old French collection believed to have been formed in the 1960s.
Acquired privately as part of a collection in the early 1990s.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12298-214825.
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 540; Content, D.J. (ed.), Islamic Rings & Gems. The Zucker Collection, London, 1967, item 94, for type.
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LOT 0389
Late Medieval Period Gold Signet Ring with Arabic Inscription
Sold for (Inc. bp): £975
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Opening Bid: £50
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'The Harling' Medieval Bronze Handled Posnet Cauldron
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Shaped as a small cauldron with a long curved handle decorated with five incuse circles extending from the rim to the swan-head finial and with loop handle beneath; spherical body, slightly oblate at the base with an everted rim and casting seams, three splayed stub legs with ribbed profile; offered with objects recovered from the same archaeological context: a struck flint flake; two bone fragments; a fragment of pottery. 3.1 kg total, 3.8-32 cm
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Bronze cauldrons played a role in ritual practices in the Middle Ages and beyond. It appears that many of the bronze cauldrons have been deliberately deposited, although the reasons for this were not always clear. There are strong indications that this often took place at the beginning of a large-scale project. This may have been the construction of a castle or a rampart, of a city wall, the building of a dyke, a dangerous crossing of the sea, the cultivation of a piece of farmland or the reclamation of a peat bog. For all types of projects, salvation and blessing could be requested in the form of a deliberate deposit of a bronze cauldron. This custom is directly comparable with the Medieval ritual of placing coins under the foundation stone of a building.
