Tibetan Style Glass Eye Bead Group

Comprising two designs in relief including three horses in an enclosure and two animals, likely cats, fighting; coloured glazes. 1.26 kg total, 10 x 9 - 9.5 x 10.2 in.



Acquired 1990s-early 2000s. East Anglian private collection.

The tile production increased in the second half of the sixteenth century and during the following centuries. The fragments discovered from various localities (pot-tiles, rectangular, triangular and trapezoidal panels, open-work crest tiles) were all produced in regional workshops, from the end of the 15th century or at the beginning of the 16th century. They all had diverse decorative motifs, mainly animals and geometrical or vegetal combinations, almost all of them singular finds for this study area.

In Byzantine style with wire coils to the outer edge, hinged loop; to the obverse, a repoussé beaded border framing a facing nimbate St George with cloak and akheton holding a spear across the body, 'ΓΟͼΡΓ' (George) inscription; to the reverse, an expanding-arm cross with bulb finials, tendrils below the arms, 'IC XC' above. 18.41 grams, 50 mm



From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.

Rectangular, with remains of lead came frame; painted scene of a heraldic swan with wings spread perching atop a column with attached chain, scrolled tendril below. 99 grams, 16 cm



De Baecque Vente aux encheres, 5 March 2022, lot 40 (part). Ex central London gallery.