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[edit]Silver filigree Mount
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Silver filigree Mount |
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| Description |
A mount, probably from a shrine, in silver. It is a semi-circular filigree mount set with a pearl and stones. The settings are crude and probably originally from a roundel of a cross which had the arm ends inset with pearls. German, middle Rhine or French, Meuse valley [Mosan]. |
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| Date | 12th century or 13th century | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Metal - Silver, Animal - Animal product - Pearl, Stone | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | H 3.5 x W 6 x D 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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MG 068 |
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| Object history | File of material relating to a filigree mount. Includes photocopy of information card with photocopy of image of object (date unspecified). Comment on the information card states that object is from a type of shrine common in the Middle Rhine and Limoges. Also recorded on the information is annotation which states that Raghnall O' Floinn said about object that it is possibly part of a clasp of a cope. Also, that it should be compared to the Suzy chalice from [Saint Donis] which is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; document (date unspecified) which gives information conveyed by Neil Straford, British Museum, and Howard Ricketts, about the object. Stratford dates object to the twelfth century and attributes it to the Middle Rhine, Germany. Ricketts attributes it to the Meuse Valley, late twelfth-early thirteenth centuries. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Hunt Museum | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Source | https://www.huntmuseum.com/collection/silver-mount/ | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Public Domain via Hunt Museum | ||||||||||||||||||||
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