unusually thick late medieval English gold ring-brooch decorated with three crowns and the posy "sans muer" [without changing -- i.e. (my love is) constant, unchanging]. Found in Hertogenbosch and now in the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (whence image)
Agraffe (clasp) used to fasten a cloak or mantel. This exceptional example is in perfect condition. The birds in translucent enamel closely correspond to enamels created about 1300, that are now in the cathedral treasury of Cologne and that inspired the Cologne goldsmith Gabriel Hermeling.
English fourteenth-century silver brooch decorated with eight heraldic shields, including the royal arms of England pre-1340, Beauchamp, de Clare and de Bohun; inscribed in Latin 'Iesus Nazarenus Rex Judeorum'/'Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews', and French, 'Mon Quer Avet'/'You Have My Heart'. (British Museum)
Circa 13th - 14th century. OXFORDSHIRE. Copper alloy. 26mm x 26mm. A medieval open-frame brooch in the form of a quatrefoil with cusps between the arcs. The copper-alloy pin is fitted on a constriction at the centre of one of the arcs.
