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Lot 99

Two medieval armorial encaustic floor tiles, 14th century

29 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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Two medieval armorial encaustic floor tiles, 14th century

Inlaid in cream clay with a lion rampant within a shield surmounted by a fleur-de-lys, the design set diagonally, 13cm sqaure and 13.5cm square (2)

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Provenance
Woodspring Priory, Somerset, September 1885 excavations
Private Collection, purchased April 1933

Woodspring Priory was a former Augustinian priory just outside Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, thought to have once held a reliquary housing a wooden cup containing the blood of St Thomas Beckett. An excavation September 1885 is recorded by R W Paull in the Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society (1885) in which he describes the discovery of '...a quantity of 14th century pavement, and among the armorial tiles were the arms of England, France, the Isle of Man (with roses between each leg), lion rampant, a portion of the arms of Clare, and fragments.' A tile from Woodspring Priory with identical decoration to those in this lot is in Weston Museum, Weston-super-Mare.

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