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Description: | Fragment of openwork possible furniture mount. The pierced plate might have originally been circular. If so then approximately one quarter survives, with the outer band comprising an arcade of at least seven cut-out arches (those at both ends being broken) with imposts, and a tiny lobe at each junction between the arches on the outside edge. At one broken end of the inside edge of the curved base of the arcade is a straight bar projecting towards, and broken at, what may have been the mid-point, with an offset right-angled bar linking back to the base just before the break at the other end. One face of the plate is engraved with lines echoing the form of the arches, imposts, lobes and the curve of the base, and forming a median line on the offset bar. Dimensions of >32 x >34mm. The form of the mount is reminiscent of, and possibly related to, crests found on enamelled chasses of the late twelfth-early thirteenth century produced in Limoges, cf. Enamels of Limoges 1100-1350 (1996), e.g. nos. 16, 24, 27. However, this fragment is decorated on one face only, and therefore is unlikely to have been visible from both sides in the manner of those examples referred to above. Dates to the late 12th-early 13th century.
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