Red enameled champlevé bronze dagger pommel with a lion rampant. 13th/14th century Height: 2.7 cm Bibliography : - R. de Rochebrune, Collection du Comte Raoul de Rochebrune, Château de la Cour d'Aron Saint-Cyr-en-Talmondais (Vendée), 1917, n°3, p.163. - A. Brunet, "Notes sur quelques émaux limousins des anciennes collections des comtes de Rochebrune", Bull.de la Soc. archéol. et hist. du Limousin, t. CXXVIII, 2000, n°14, p.12-13 and p.11 ill. Reference: similar knobs in the Keir collection, reputed to have been found in the ancient Kingdom of Jerusalem and probably belonging to crusaders (Sale New York, Sotheby's, The Keir Collection of Medieval Works of Art, November 20, 1997, n°99, 100 and 101, p.141 to 143, 237.

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