LATE 15TH CENTURY

Details

A Burgundian (?) Iron Stirrup
Late 15th Century
With fluted sides widening towards the bottom, shaped at the summit to form a leather-box (incomplete), and with the lower edges shaped and pierced, the foot plate formed as a ring enclosing two lateral bars, struck near the top of one side with a maker's mark, a fire-steel (?) within a shaped shield
5¾in. (14.7cm.) high

Provenance

G.P. Jenkinson

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Lot Essay

A similar mark occurs on a late 15th-century armet, later used as a funerary helmet, in the Parish Church at Lynsted, Kent
A fire-steel was the device of the Burgundian Order of the Golden Fleece

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