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LOT 0405
Medieval Bronze Round Seal Matrix with Lion
CIRCA 14TH-15TH CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (13.1 grams, 25 mm).
With central sleeping lion motif and dense field of intersecting pointed arches with tracery and illegible letters in the spandrels around the perimeter; tapering shank and trefoil loop above.
ProvenanceFound Southern England.
Acquired on the UK art market in the 1980s.
From an East Anglian private collection.
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