Medieval Pewter Pilgrim's Badge with Church

13TH CENTURY A.D.

1 1/2 in. (6 grams, 40 mm).

Styled as a church building surmounted by three crosses, raised hatching to one face and a scene depicting the Virgin and Child beneath a starry sky to the other; four attachment loops remaining. [No Reserve]

Provenance

European collection, 1990s.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

Literature

Cf. the virtually identical Abb.1429 on p.343 of H.J.E. van Beuningen, A.M. Koldeweij & D. Kicken, Heilig en Profaan 2 1200 Laatmiddeleeuwse Insignes [Rotterdam Papers XII], Cothen, 2001, where dated to the 13th century.

CONDITION

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LOT 1545