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Description: | Incomplete gilt copper alloy buckle plate with fine and unusual decoration depicting a scene of courtly love. Rectangular plate, worn, corroded and broken across loops where recessed for frame and slotted for pin, back part missing, twin rivet-holes through decoration at attachment end. This cast relief decoration shows an arcade with two round-headed arches, the central column with its capital lower than those on the two outer columns and with a small turret with conical roof above. Two facing figures stand on a pecked field. The female figure is contained within the left hand arch. She wears a dress with vertical folds and has her right hand on her hip and her left hand outstretched to touch the central column. The robed male figure also has his left hand on his hip which is slightly thrust forward. His right hand is raised in front of his face as if in salutation. Cf. a slightly smaller buckle plate of similar date and execution depicting Samson killing the lion, found in 2003 in Postwick, Norfolk (HER 31097) and a buckle plate from Wenhaston, Suffolk, with cast relief decoration showing a king enthroned between two standing female figures. c. 1220-30
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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