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AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE EARLY ENGLISH LEADED BRONZE POSNET
13th or 14th Century

The Jim Lennon Collection of Silver, Asian and European Works of Art

26 January 2022, 10:00 GMT

Edinburgh

Sold for £3,825 inc. premium

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AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE EARLY ENGLISH LEADED BRONZE POSNET

13th or 14th Century
The near spherical body with flared rim and decorated with two wire mouldings, on three raised rectangular-section legs, the tapering handle supported by an open brace, decorated along its length with circles, and with a downswept kicked terminal hook, 31cm wide, 15cm deep, 22.5cm high.

Footnotes

Footnotes
See the example sold in the John Douglas Collection of Base Metal, Bonhams, Oxford, 19th April 2021, which had a provenance to Ballintuim House, Strathardle, Scotland

Literature
See R. Butler & C. Green A Study Collection of Marked Domestic Brass and Other Base Metalware, c. 1600 - c. 1900 (2001), p. 174, for another very similar posnet, and an accompanying illustration from the 13th century Romance of Alexander, showing a posnet of this type and decoration in use.

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