Lion's Head Mask

Visited Tyntesfield a National Trust property outside of Bristol - the house is at heart a Victorian country house which was lived in by four generations of the Gibbs family spanning 200 years.

The family and their astute business minds made a huge fortune from the trade in Guano from South America and transformed an ordinary Georgian house into an extraordinary Gothic masterpiece

The blip is a Charlemagne with rock crystal lion's head masks on each arm of the throne - it was extremely challenging to photograph as the room in which it was displayed was in very low light and the use of flash photography was prohibited - but I was very drawn to this beautiful throne and so it has become my blip for today