A RARE AND INTERESTING MEDIAEVAL GOLD AND JEWELLED PENDANT of

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A RARE AND INTERESTING MEDIAEVAL GOLD AND JEWELLED PENDANT of
trefoil form, the two lower cup-shaped settings with a cabochon ruby and a cabochon sapphire in scalloped claw mounts with four gold beads between (top setting now vacant but with small loop possibly for a pearl), with a pattern of running chainwork around the rims and three repoussé six-petalled flowers on the reverse, with small suspension loop, 15th Century
3.0cm. overall height

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INDENTExcavated in Hertfordshire

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INDENTA close comparison can be drawn between the repoussé flower decoration on the above pendant and that found on a small roundel from the Fishpool Hoard (discovered 22 March 1966 at Fishpool in Nottinghamshire and dated on account of the coins to pre-1464). The
roundel in question, set with a sapphire encircled in white enamel beads, has a complex construction not hitherto ascribed to an English source, and is most closely parallelled by a group of three brooches found in the Meuse. These have been variously described as Flemish or Burgundian and it has been suggested that they may have been made in Flanders. Cf. J. Cherry, 'The Medieval Jewellery from the Fishpool, Nottinghamshire, Hoard', Archaeologia 104 (1973) pp.308-321