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Description: | Incomplete Medieval armorial mount from furniture or harness, circular (48mm, 2mm thick), part of outside edge broken and with at least one notch (possibly resulting from method of attachment) and localised patch of probable solder adjacent to the notch on the reverse. The originally enamelled counter-relief decoration comprises a shield bearing the arms: Vairy Ermine and [?] impaling [?] a fess between two chevrons [?Or/Argent] set within foliate decoration filling the space between the shield and the edge of the roundel. Traces of silvering survive on the dexter side of the shield of which a large fragment is missing and on part of the surrounding foliate decoration. The enamel is missing. The arms are those of GRESLEY: Vairy Ermine and Gules (Corder 1965, 445) impaling ???. Cf. mounts of similar form illustrated in Ashley (2002) nos.194-5 and Hemp (1936) nos.5-7. Fifteenth century. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Bales, Ellen - Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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