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[edit]| Late Medieval copper alloy ewer spout | |||
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, Adam Daubney, 2009-05-18 15:56:19 |
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| Title |
Late Medieval copper alloy ewer spout |
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| Description |
English: Complete cast copper alloy pouring spout in the shape of a dog’s head. Length 37mm and 18mm wide and 18mm in depth. Weight 45.55g.
The dog’s head is hollow and oval in cross-section and holds a circular-shaped object (7mm internal diameter) in its mouth from which liquid would have been poured. The dog has large upturned and round-ended ears which project slightly above the head. The eyes are absent. The top of the neck, to the rear of the ears, is concave as viewed from the side and the neck merges into the downward curving attachment end which incomplete. The top of the head is decorated with a raised hatched rib. This spout is unusual because the pouring hole through the centre of the object has been filled with lead in an attempt to bung the hole. This of course would render the vessel useless. It is possible that the spout was purposefully detached from the vessel and used as a decorative feature on some other kind of vessel. This pouring spout and others like it were used in the 15th and 16th centuries and it is believed that they were used as pourers on leather bottles, secured to them by a leather strap so that only the head and neck of the dog would have been visible, similar spouts can seen in Bailey 1997, 57-59. |
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| Depicted place | (County of findspot) Lincolnshire | ||
| Date | between 1400 and 1600 | ||
| Accession number |
FindID: 256774 Old ref: LIN-3DB271 Filename: LIN8139.JPG |
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https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/210949 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/210949/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/256774 |
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