European Sculpture & Works of Art 900-1900
Catalogue Information: 203 lots | 202 with images
Date: 2004
Auction House:
Sotheby's
Location:
United Kingdom
Lot 1: BYZANTIUM, 6TH CENTURY
the silver dish decorated with incised scallops on the inner rim, in the centre a niello cross encircled by ivy, on plain, hollow circular squat foot, the base with three control stamps
Lot 2: LIMOGES, 13TH CENTURY AND LATER
of patriarchal form, the back mounted with coloured pastes and hardstones in tall collets, the front with champleve enamel, two angels at the crossing points each within a roundel, within a dark blue enamel ground decorated with interlacing acanthus [...more]
Lot 3: LIMOGES, 13TH CENTURY
decorated with roundels enclosing pale blue star shapes within a deep blue ground decorated with acanthus foliage, the lid surmounted by a cross centred by a later cabocon red paste
Lot 4: GERMAN, 12TH CENTURY
of eliptical section, with the half length figure of the Virgin holding a book in her left hand, inscribed AVE MARIA
Lot 5: ENGLISH, CIRCA 10TH CENTURY
inscribed on the top left SC(S) and (PE)TRVS, carved with half length figure of the tonsured saint turned partially to the right, his right hand clasped to his chest with two fingers raised in benediction, his mantle carved with deep folds with the s [...more]
