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LOT 1720
Medieval Carved Stone Capital with Angels
13TH-14TH CENTURY A.D.
7 3/8 in. (2.26 kg total, 18.7 cm high).
Comprising an arcade of winged angels beneath a segmented pediment; each angel shown facing with hands pressed together, head surrounded by a flat halo with wings flanking, in a billetted vesica-shaped border, arrowheads in the lower spandrels; mounted on a custom-made stand. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired TimeLine, 2013.
Property of a Kent collector.
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Commemorating a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Ubaldus (1085-1160) in Gubbio. -
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Acquired in the 1960s. Ex Bursnall collection, Leicestershire, UK. From the collection of a North American gentleman.
Unique and with links to royalty and the Wars of the Roses. Edmund Plantagenet, Earl of Rutland was executed after the Battle of Wakefield (probably by John Clifford) and was the son of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York (a great-grandson of Edward III, father of Edward IV and one of the most powerful English magnates during the Wars of the Roses between the Yorkists and Lancastrians). The first Earl of Rutland was Edmund Plantagenet (grandson of Edward III and executed following the Southampton Plot against Henry V), uncle to Richard. The Earldom of Rutland has historically been closely linked to the Duchy and House of York. -
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Found Thames foreshore spoil, 1980s.
