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LOT 1801
Medieval Bronze Mount with Saints
15TH-16TH CENTURY A.D.
2 in. (37.9 grams, 50 mm).
Cruciform plaque fragment, low-relief central square with Mary and Infant Jesus, facing nimbate bust in each surrounding roundel, pierced. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the London art market in the late 1980s-1990s.
From the family collection of an East London, UK, gentleman.
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