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This exceedingly rare medieval carving, which recalls the more monumental carvings on Viking ship prows, may have been a finial for a diagonal member of a folding chair. The character of the head, the stylized acanthus leaves, and the foliage-spouting mask on the neck are characteristic of north European and Anglo-Norman Romanesque styles.</div>
between 1100 and 1150 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1150-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1100-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1150-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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