Medieval Floral Limestone Capital

Gilt-bronze crozier head fragment comprising: lower arc of the bow with lattice and enamel fill; horizontal base with standing figure of Mary wearing a floor-length gown, holding to her chest an open book; to her rear, a portion of a house with latticed window and tiled roof with lobed finial; before her, the two feet of the archangel Gabriel; supplied with a custom-made display stand. 69 grams, 97 mm (113 grams total, 15.5 cm high including stand)



Ex Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger collection, Lucerne (inv.E58). Private collection, Suffolk, UK. Accompanied by a copy of a previous three page illustrated cataloguing document with references. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.12041-212157.

Wheel-thrown vessel with oblate profile, three small flange feet, rounded mouth with inturned rim and short pinched spout, ribbed strap handle to the rear' inked accession number to the underside: 'W.M. V.16.'; old card catalogue label with remains of wax seal and handwritten 'V / No.16' and pencilled 'Welfen Museum'. 1.05 kg, 21.5 cm high



Welfen Museum, circa 1860; thence by descent at Marienburg Castle, Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany. with Sotheby's, Royal House of Hanover Sale, 10 October 2005, no.1254. Accompanied by an old card catalogue label with remains of wax seal and handwritten 'V / No.16' and pencilled 'Welfen Museum'. Accompanied by a copy of a previous cataloguing page.

Evidence of soot accretion to the underside, implying use on or beside a hearth.

Handwritten in five lines with two seals, reading: 'Know all me by this present writing that we John Gouter esquire and Elizabeth, who was late the wife of Richard Hungate, have made constituted and confirmed and put in our place our beloved in Christ John Rimpyngden as our true and lawful attorney in law to receive in our name of Thomas Tyrell. Thomas Covell, Arthur Ormesby esquire and William Godyng full and peaceful seisin in his possession of his manor of Knolle, with all its appurtenances, in the county of Somerset, to the true intent and meaning of a charter made to the said John Gouter and Elizabeth... it is ratified and consented that whatsoever our said attorney in our names shall do or have done in or about the premises shall be lawful. In witness whereof we have affixed our seal. Dated 3rd day of the month of January in the 17th year of the reign of king henry VI (1438/1439).' 19.20 grams, 33.5 cm



Acquired UK market. Property of a Kent collector. Accompanied by a full transcription and notes.

The same Arthur Ormesby, esquire, appears in a document of 06 October 1425 where Arthur and his wife Margaret, deforciants, have acknowledged the tenements to be the right of Andrew Sperlying, Thomas Chaucers, John Golafre and Eustace Valdrean, querents, and have remised and quitclaimed them from themselves and the heirs of Margaret to Thomas, John, Andrew and Eustace and the heirs of Andrew for ever.