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LOT 2478
Post Medieval Bronze Seal Matrix and Pipe Tamper with Heart and H I
CIRCA 17TH-18TH CENTURY A.D.
1 5/8 in. (8.15 grams, 41 mm).
Columnar shank with ribbed ends, stirrup-shaped base with heart motif, arrow and 'HI' initials, supplied with an impression. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Romney Marsh area, Kent, 1990-2015.
Property of a Kent gentleman, a specialist medieval collector.
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LOT 2478
Post Medieval Bronze Seal Matrix and Pipe Tamper with Heart and H I
Estimate £50 - 70€58 - 81 (for guidance only)$68 - 95 (for guidance only)
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Opening Bid: £5
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Post Medieval Limoges Style Champlevé Enamelled Crozier Socket
France, 18th-19th century A.D.Estimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £100
Hollow cylindrical socket, engraved and decorated in champlevé enamel with scrolling foliage and pointed leaves reserved in the metal against grounds of deep blue and turquoise. 15.77 grams, 47 mm
Acquired on the European art market. UK, private collection.
The socket formed the lower portion of a pastoral crozier, connecting the crozier head to its wooden staff. The reserved gilt foliage and blue enamel grounds correspond with the decoration of surviving early thirteenth-century Limoges croziers, including the crozier associated with Abbot Bertrand de Malsang in the Louvre, Musée du Louvre, MRR 810.
