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Description: | An incomplete medieval Limoges-style gilt and enamelled copper-alloy furniture mount, probably from a coffret (small chest). It is corroded and distorted, circular (approximately 80mm in diameter and 1mm thick), with openwork decoration comprising the figure of a gryllus or monster with a human (male) torso and the winged scaly body of a wyvern in the place of his lower body and legs. His right hand holds a sword with a perforated roundel at its point for attachment and the left hand grips the remains of a foliate tendril. Both damaged legs survive and the tail is missing. The bearded head is a separately modelled half-round head of a copper alloy rivet. A similar creature is shown on a circular enamelled openwork mount from a coffret of 'before 1227', in Enamels of Limoges 1100-1350 (New York, 1996) p. 289, no. 92, and the form of the mount is closest to those found on roundels on a coffret dated to before 1234-37 (1236?) in the same volume, pp 361-3.
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