Medieval Lead Weight Collection

With slender hoop, cup bezel with inset cabochon garnet. 0.70 grams, 20.50 mm overall, 15.16 mm internal diameter (approximate size British I, USA 4 1/4, Europe 7.44, Japan 7)



From a late Japanese specialist collector, 1970-2000s.

Inner wooden casket with chamfered rim and separate lid, encased within rectangular gilt-bronze panels with enamel decoration, four gilt-bronze stud feet to the underside; the lid with three nimbate figures, a female saint with palm frond and two flanking figures holding books, all reserved on a blue field with interstitial polychrome rosettes; Side A: nimbate bearded bust of Christ in Majesty with right hand in gesture of benison, left hand supporting a book, flanked by two winged nimbate angels; Side B: nimbate bust of a winged angel in a roundel; Side C: geometric repeating pattern of lozenges with floral fill; Side D: mirror image of Side B. 760 grams, 14.5 cm



John Pierpont Morgan, New York, and London, until 1917. Private collection, Suffolk. Accompanied by a copy of a previous four 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.12039-212154.

The two end-panels are believed to have been added at a later date than the longer panels and may have been trimmed slightly along the lower edges. The panels are attached with domed pins of various types.

Tongue-shaped panel with detailed monochrome scene, amber-coloured frame and nimbus; cracked and partly mounted for repair. 148 grams, 23.5 cm



with De Baecque Encheres, 5 March 2022, no.46.