Beschreibung:

MEDIEVAL HERALDIC HORSE HARNESS PENDANT GROUP 14th-15th century AD A mixed group of bronze harness pendants comprising: a quatrefoil with red enamel fill, central blue enamel rectangle with reserved lion passant gardant; a quatrefoil with blue enamel field, four red pierced cinquefoils; a lozenge with ermine field, red transverse band with reserved cinquefoils (blazoned 'Ermine a fesse gules charged with three cinquefoils or pierced', arms of the Arder family); a heater shield with white and green enamelled swan (badge of the de Bohun family?). 37 grams total, 29-42mm (1 1/4 - 1 3/4"). Fine condition. [4] Provenance Property of a Suffolk collector; acquired on the UK art market. Literature Cf. Ashley, S. Medieval Armorial Horse Furniture in Norfolk, East Anglian Archaeology 101, Dereham, 2002 items 216, 211, 161, for type.