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LOT 2283
Medieval Iron Knife with Saints Engraved on the Bronze Pommel
CIRCA 15TH CENTURY A.D.
6 1/2 in. (18.57 grams, 16.4 cm).
Narrow single-edged blade with curved back and integral bolster; flared scale-tang hilt with integral finial and hatched detailing to upper and lower faces; finial with facing nimbate figure on a hatched field to both faces.
ProvenanceFrom a UK collection formed in the 1980s.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
Cf. Marquardt, K., Eight Centuries of European Knives, Forks and Spoons: an Art Collection, Europe, 1997, pp.28-32, for similar.
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LOT 2283
Medieval Iron Knife with Saints Engraved on the Bronze Pommel
Estimate £100 - 140€120 - 160 (for guidance only)$140 - 190 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£50 (EUR 58; USD 68) +BP*
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Medieval Bronze Thimble Collection
Circa 14th-16th century A.D.Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Including flat-topped, beehive and other types. 28.87 grams total, 16-22 mm
Acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. From the private collection of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
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Medieval Gilt Basse-Taille Plaques from a Processional Cross Depicting Evangelists
Spain, Catalonia, circa 1400-1420 A.D.Estimate: £3,000 - 4,000 (+bp*)
Bids: 7 | Current Bid: £320
Group of four quatrefoil plaques, each with a hole at the end of each arm for attachment; champ-levé enamelled images of the symbols of the evangelists: angel, ox, and lion, one with an image of a pelican piercing her side with her own beak, symbolising Christ's Passion; each with a looped and draped band, the angel holding a banner with a legend 'marcus' in bastarda script. 27.49 grams total, 48-50 mm
Galerie Ratton Ladriere, 2021. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.13470-262833.
Processional crosses in late medieval Catalonia were richly decorated with gilt silver and basse-taillle plaques. In terms of the typology of Catalan crosses in the later Middle Ages, the present work was part of a 'cruz flordelisada' (cross adorned with a fleur-de-lis), which was a Catalan fashion in the 14th and 15th centuries, and which was used in Christian processions. -
Medieval Decorated Bronze Ring
12th-13th century A.D.Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Penannular type with overlapped ends; incised border with fringe detailing, three punched hubs each surrounded by a ring of pellets. 5.75 grams, 22.82 mm overall, 19.53 mm internal diameter (approximate size British T, USA 9 1/2, Europe 21.26, Japan 20)
From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.
