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Description: | Limoges gilt and enamelled furniture mount, probably from a coffret (small chest), very corroded with traces of champlevé enamel and gilding. The mount is circular (diameter 53mm, 1mm thick) with three perforations for attachment around the outer edge. The decoration comprises the standing figure of Samson straddling a lion passant to dexter and pulling back the lions head with both hands, the identifying characteristic of the male figure of Samson is the long wavy locks of his hair falling behind his head and back. The figures, with engraved details, are set within curling tendrils on the remains of a blue enamelled field. A similar scene is shown on a quatrefoil mount from a coffret of c.1180-90, pp.152-3, no.35 (Enamels of Limoges 1100-1350 (New York, 1996)) and on a roundel from a coffret dated to before 1227, no.88, pp.282-5
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