Lot 138
138
AN EXTREMELY RARE PAIR OF ENGLISH ENAMELLED ROWEL SPURS, of brass cast and chased with scrolling vine leaves and grapes on a light blue and white enamel ground (some missing), one retaining an original enamelled buckle and stud, third quarter of the 17th Century

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AN EXTREMELY RARE PAIR OF ENGLISH ENAMELLED ROWEL SPURS, of brass cast and chased with scrolling vine leaves and grapes on a light blue and white enamel ground (some missing), one retaining an original enamelled buckle and stud, third quarter of the 17th Century
6¼in. (2)
Literature
A.V.B. Norman, Wallace Collection Catalogues, European Arms and Armour Supplement, p. 112

Lot Essay

Only one other English enamelled spur, in the Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, is known to survive

So-called 'Surrey' enamel of this type is found on stirrups, horse-bits, hanger-hilts, and domestic items such as candlesticks, fire-dogs, and sconces
See C.R. Beard, The Connoisseur, LXXXVIII (1931), pp. 219-29, and XC (1932), pp. 25-6; J.G. Mann, 'Stuart Enamels', Country Life, 12 March, 1943, pp. 480-81; C.C. Oman, 'Stuart Enamels', ibid, 16 April, 1943, p. 711

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