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Description: | A complete Medieval cast copper alloy Limoges style enameled reliquary or cross mount of c. 12th/13th century AD. The mount is anthropomorphic in form and decoration and depicts a head and robed body. The head is solid sub-spherical head with blue glass beads for eyes and a triangular protruding nose. Its body is sub rectangular in form and has a convex section. There are two circular perforations in the center of the body for attachment . The surface of the mount is very corroded but several cells of different colour depict a robe. There are traces of gilding on the body and head of the mount. The reverse is undecorated.The mount is 65.5mm long, 22.1mm wide, 5.1mm thick and weighs 18.96 grams.This piece is a typical figurative mount used in the adornment of medieval ecclesiastical objects such as reliquaries and altar crosses. Parallels can be seen on an unprovenanced casket in the Victoria and Albert Museum (M.572-1910), dated c. 1200-c. 1250; on crosses from Navelsjo and Ukna, Sweden, the latter dated c. 1195-1210, the former also to the late 12th/early 13th century (O'Neill ed. 1996, 185-186); and on several PAS records. See also an example in Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum (Cherry in Saunders (ed.) 2001, 41-42; fig. 8, ref. 2) and mounts on a chasse in the Musée du Louvre and once in the treasury of Saint-Denis, which has been dated to c.1225-50 (Boehm and Taburet-Delahaye 1996, cat. no. 113).
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