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Description: | Medieval gilt and champlevé enamelled copper-alloy medallion, circular (diameter 52mm, 2mm thick), now bent. Hollowed on reverse (depth of object, from face to back, 5mm) with a concave flange pierced by four rivet-holes containing corroded iron rivets; the flange has an engraved bordering line. The central design comprises a white enamelled quatrefoil surmounted by a turquoise cross potent on a blue enamelled field. A number of medieval mounts of similar form have been published. Unlike the example under discussion here, which is cast in one piece, most of these mounts appear to be two-part composite objects, with a central disc and separate frame. Some later examples are very elaborate. They have been identified as mounts from, variously: portable furniture, mazers, morses, belts and horse harness. One-piece mounts of slightly different form, from Limoges, were employed on coffrets (small chests or caskets). This mount was probably originally attached to either portable furniture, such as a casket, or to horse harness. Compare examples in W. de C. Prideaux, 1911 'Notes on Medieval Enamelled Armorial Horse Trappings with especial Reference to a Weymouth Find' in Proceedings of the Dorset Field Club 32, 226-38; Anon. 1921 'Harlech Castle: A Recent Find' in Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 70; and the discussion in G. Egan ,1991 'Circular-composite armorial mounts' in G. Egan and F. Pritchard, Dress Accessories c.1150-c.1450 ,181-4.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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