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Description: | A copper-alloy enamelled mount of medieval date. The mount is very similar to objects described as straps from a coffret (a small coffer) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art catalogue Enamels of Limoges (O'Neil and Egan 1996, pages 152-153), and this is certainly what this object is. The strap mount is sub triangular in plan, with a large triangular wedge at one end which tapers towards a point, but with an oval expansion just before the thinner terminal. The mount is decorated with a geometric design, possibly intended to represent a plant, executed in enamel at the wider end which resembles a heart in dark blue enamel, with a V shape in pale blue enamel inside and a second V in a pale green enamel inside the first V. A dark blue border runs around the design, with a cell for further enamel in between. Much of the enamel from the piece is clearly missing. There are two rivet holes for attachment to the coffret at the wider end, one at each corner, whilst there is a single circular rivet at the thinnest end.The style of the enamelled decoration indicates that it was made in Limoges (southern France), a centre of enamelling during the medieval period. Elements of the decoration on this example (the geometric/plant motif at the wider end in particular) are similar to those on a famous chasse (box reliquary or casket) from Ambazac (France), which is dated to AD 1180-90 (O'Neil and Egan 1996, page 211). A late 12th to early 13th century date for this object therefore seems likely.The mount measures 65.83 mm long, 31.03 mm wide at the widest end, 5.00 mm wide at the thinnest. It measures 2.6 mm thick and weighs 10.7 grams.
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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