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LOT 1869
Medieval Enamelled Gilt Bronze Limoges Saint Figure
13TH CENTURY A.D.
2 3/8 in. (22 grams, 61 mm).
Comprising a tongue-shaped curved-section body pierced in two places for attachment, with rounded shoulders and bowed head with short tonsured hair. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
LiteratureCf. similar items on the shrine of St Hippolyte in Taburet-Delahaye, E. & Boehm, B.D., L'Œuvre de Limoges, Paris, 1995, item 113.
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