A PAIR OF CRANE-NECK ROWEL SPURS, each with slender downcurved sides with figure eight terminals, the base of the necks of facetted elongated oval shape, shaped rowel of five points, and original buckles and hooks, the outer surfaces throughout damascened in gold with running foliated scrollwork carrying flowers within overlapping scale borders (rubbed on one arm of the right spur), the inner surfaces with traces of gilding, early 17th Century

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A PAIR OF CRANE-NECK ROWEL SPURS, each with slender downcurved sides with figure eight terminals, the base of the necks of facetted elongated oval shape, shaped rowel of five points, and original buckles and hooks, the outer surfaces throughout damascened in gold with running foliated scrollwork carrying flowers within overlapping scale borders (rubbed on one arm of the right spur), the inner surfaces with traces of gilding, early 17th Century
6¾in. (2)
Provenance
Viscount Astor, Hever Castle, Sotheby & Co., May 5, 1983, lot 168

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