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LOT 1752
Medieval Bronze Knight's Royal Heraldic Horse Harness Pendant with Arms of England
14TH CENTURY A.D.
1 5/8 in. (10.2 grams, 43 mm).
Heater-shaped with motif of three lions, the royal arms of England from 1198 to 1340 and then from 1360 to 1369; blazoned 'gules, three lions passant guardant in pale or'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Cambridgeshire, UK.
LiteratureCf. Ashley, S., Medieval Armorial Horse Furniture in Norfolk, East Anglian Archaeology 101, Dereham, 2002, items 50, 51, 55.
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LOT 1752
Medieval Bronze Knight's Royal Heraldic Horse Harness Pendant with Arms of England
Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
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Medieval Bronze Beehive Thimble Group
14th-16th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Each differently sized and covered in dimples. 7.2 grams total, 14-16 mm
European collection, 1990s. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Medieval Bronze Vesica-Shaped Seal Matrix of Richard of Heyford
13th-14th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £390
Displaying a fish head, crescent moon and star, two rosettes, legend 'S' RICARDI DE HEIFORD' for 'seal of Richard of Heyford' (either of the places so named in Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire)'; suspension loop to reverse. 9.65 grams, 33 mm
From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s. -
Medieval Stone Capital with Prophet Daniel and Lions
Spain or Southern France, 12th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £845
From an architectural column with a square upper face developing to a rounded base; a decorative frieze carved in the half-round depicting two seated lions, each with its tail looped around its lower body, supporting a pedestal on which a facing bust of a young boy is resting. 25.7 kg, 36 cm
Good condition
with Piasa, 7 June 2013, lot 17. Ex central London gallery. Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D’Amato. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.11738-202062.
The form of the capital and the shape of the beasts are similar to those sculptures that survive in churches on the pilgrimage route to Santiago da Compostela – namely in Southern France and Northern Spain, but the bodies of the lions have many correspondences with the capital sculptures of Poitou. The lions were considered to be guardians against evil and the image of the young boy is probably a representation of the prophet Daniel. There is a similar capital in the Church of d'Airvault (Deux-Sèvres) also ornamented with lions and a human head.
