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LOT 1672

Sold for (Inc. bp): £111

MEDIEVAL BRONZE 'STANSAM AND COTTON FAMILIES' KNIGHT'S HERALDIC HORSE HARNESS PENDANT GROUP
13TH-14TH CENTURY A.D.
1 5/8 - 1 5/8 in. (21.4 grams total, 42-43 mm).

Including one with a horse or unicorn(?) passant (Stansam family); one with reserved eagle(?) displayed on a blue field (Cotton family). [2, No Reserve]

PROVENANCE:
Found UK.
Acquired on the UK art market after 2000.
Ex Stratford collection, Suffolk, UK.

LITERATURE:
Cf. Ashley, S., Medieval Armorial Horse Furniture in Norfolk, East Anglian Archaeology 101, Dereham, 2002, items 77, 145, 88, 243.

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