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Description: | Medieval copper alloy gilt and enamelled cap from wand or pointer, now corroded. Tubular, flaring slightly at top, upper face (diameter14mm) decorated with gilded winged quadruped on a blue enamelled field (Azure a ?griffin passant). The elaborate decoration around the sides comprises: (from top down) a band of narrow gilt fluting; on a green (or turquoise) enamelled band, four red C shapes containing alternating (?originally gilt) trefoils and scallops of blue enamel bordered at curved edge with white enamel; a dark blue enamelled band with four green (or turquoise) running scrolls two of which contain alternately a yellow scallop; a narrow band of gilt pellets; a slightly broader band of dots within fluted curves, pierced by transverse rivet-holes, one containing fragment of copper alloy rivet, the other broken at mouth. Diameter of open end 11mm, length 29mm. Probably manufactured at Limoges, the ?griffin is paralleled by a Limousin illumination of a quadruped in the Bible of Saint-Yrieix, dating to the early 12th century. See Enamels of Limoges 1100-1350 (1996) 81, fig.7b.
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