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LOT 2582
Post Medieval Limoges Style Champlevé Enamelled Crozier Socket
FRANCE, 18TH-19TH CENTUR Y A.D.
1 3/4 in. (15.77 grams, 47 mm).
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.
ProvenanceAcquired 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.
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LOT 2582
Post Medieval Limoges Style Champlevé Enamelled Crozier Socket
Estimate £200 - 300€230 - 350 (for guidance only)$270 - 410 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£100 (EUR 116; USD 135) +BP*
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Opening Bid: £5
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Opening Bid: £50
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Opening Bid: £5
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