Medieval Bronze Shrine Head of a Lady

12TH-15TH CENTURY A.D.

1 3/8 in. (49 grams, 34 mm).

Hollow-formed with everted rim to the neck, hair held in a snood, with shallow lentoid eyes, bottle-shaped nose and slit mouth; remains of fixing pin to top of head.

Provenance

Found Cambridgeshire, UK.
Private English collection formed in the 1990s.
Property of an Essex gentleman.

CONDITION

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LOT 1712