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LOT 1940
Medieval Knight's Enamelled 'Son of King Edward I' Bronze Heraldic Horse Harness Pendant
EARLY 14TH CENTURY A.D.
1 5/8 in. (8.58 grams, 41 mm).
Of heater-shaped form, plano-convex with suspension loop; remains of blue and red enamelling; reserved royal arms of England (gules three lions passant gardant or) with azure label cadency mark. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound East Anglia, UK.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Cf. Ashley, S., Medieval Armorial Horse Furniture in Norfolk, East Anglian Archaeology 101, Dereham, 2002, item 55, for type, and 238, for arms.
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LOT 1940
Medieval Knight's Enamelled 'Son of King Edward I' Bronze Heraldic Horse Harness Pendant
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
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Medieval Brass Cross with Elaborate Interlace Pattern
Ethiopia, circa 1440-1480 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £650
Openwork panel comprising expanding-arm crosses within intersecting circles; attached to a tapering shaft with everted rim and with early shaft repair using wire. 758 grams, 29.2 cm
Private collection, Hong Kong. From a private collection, Suffolk, UK. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato. -
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Medieval and Other Bronze Artefact Collection
12th-17th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Comprising: a seal matrix with trilobed handle with initials 'PEE' or 'PFE'; a spur rowel fragment; thee buckle frames; an oval belt mount; a clothing fastener with swirling foliage; a large buckle frame and plate; an oval buckle with forked spacer; a fragment of a buckle frame with hatched decoration; two cooking vessel legs; lead bag seal inscribed 'SPILL...ERS' and 'NEWCAS' to one side, the other side with 'PATE'; a pierced lead disc; a buckle loop formed as two animals biting the crossbar; a book clasp with fleur-de-lis; a furniture fitting with a facing head with sun burst behind; a lead-alloy harness boss with a twelve-petalled flower. 426 grams total including document, 16-95 mm
Found Yorkshire, UK. From the private collection of Robin Sykes, Yorkshire, UK, formed since the late 1990s. Eighteen objects with record sheets by Jim Halliday. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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Medieval Pope Boniface IX Lead Papal Bulla
1389-1404 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
The obverse depicting the busts of St Peter and St Paul each within an inverted pear-shaped compartment defined by pellets; cross pattee supported on a staff between the busts and at the top of the bulla in the centre letters 'SPASPE', abbreviations for St Paul and St Peter; reverse inscribed over three lines 'BONI / FATIVS:/ PP:VIIII', with an omega above the letters 'PP'; both obverse and reverse faces with a pelletted perimeter. 51.7 grams, 36 mm
Found UK. Property of a Worlingworth, Suffolk, UK, private collector. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Pope Boniface IX, born Pietro Tomacelli, was the 204th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, reigning from 1389 to 1404. He served during the Western Schism, a period where rival claimants to the papacy existed in both Rome and Avignon.
