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LOT 0411
Medieval Floor Tile with Running Dog
FRANCE, BURGUNDY, CIRCA 1370-1400 A.D.
4 1/8 x 4 1/8 in. (388 grams, 10.5 x 10.5 cm).
Square tile with cream-coloured image of a hound running past a tree. [No Reserve]
Provenancewith Woolley & Wallis Salisbury, 8 October 2013, no.299.
Ex central London gallery.
Accompanied by a copy of a previous cataloguing document with references.
Cf. Norton, E.C., De l'Aquitaine a l'Artois: Carreaux Stannifères et carreaux Plombifères des XIIIe et XIVe siècles en France, in Rosen & Crepin-Lebrond, Images du Pouvoir, Pavements de Faience en France du XIIIe au XVIIe siècles, Lyon, 2000, pp.34-48.
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Medieval French Tile Collection
France, mid 14th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,560
Group of six square floor tiles in red-on-white slip; design of a quadrant with bisecting line and florid scrolls repeating to form ornate circle motifs; mounted in a sturdy wooden frame. 3.39 kg, 34.5 x 23.5 cm
with Jean-Emmanuel Prunier, 15 April 2012, no.37. Accompanied by a previous catalogue information page. -
Medieval Floor Tile with Running Dog
France, Burgundy, circa 1370-1400 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £780
Square tile with cream-coloured image of a hound running past a tree. 388 grams, 10.5 x 10.5 cm
with Woolley & Wallis Salisbury, 8 October 2013, no.299. Ex central London gallery. Accompanied by a copy of a previous cataloguing document with references. -
Medieval Silver Iconographic Ring
Circa 15th-16th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £416
With thick segmented hoop and square bezel; each shoulder with a tapering panel depicting a winged nimbate figure, facing; below this, a rectangular panel with a voided cross; underside with a nimbate eagle; above the shoulders, two splayed fronds; lateral faces of the bezel with flowers, each larger face with nimbate figure on a hatched field; underside with inscription oremus (let us pray). 15.77 grams, 27.25 mm overall, 20.16 mm internal diameter (approximate size British U 1/2, USA 10 1/4, Europe 23, Japan 22)
Private collection, Arundel, West Sussex, UK, 1975-late 1990s.
The nimbate figures and inscription suggest that the ring was a devotional object belonging to a cleric or ecclesiastical leader.
