BASE METAL, EARLY

A fine 14th-century bronze tripod ewer or aquamanile
found on the Charlton family estate at Hesleyside in Northumberland and sold at auction in the mid 1970s

A Spanish bronze mortar of the 15th or early
16th-century with the wonderful patination of
centuries

A Spanish bronze mortar of the late 13th century of Islamic design

An extremely rare English Gothic copper pyx, the foot inscribed "magnificat", bought  at an auction of attic surplus at Ripley Castle near Harrogate, Yorkshire, seat of the Ingelby family; in the mid 1970s.  It is now in the V. and A. Museum

A pair of Henry VIII gilded iron stirrups with stamped smith's mark "IS"

One of a pair of late 16th-century South German gilt bronze hunting dogs, Augsburg