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Description: | A copper alloy mount from a medieval hanging bowl or laver. The mount is in the form of a female human head and measures 53mm high, 56mm wide and 22mm thick. The head is shown with a centre parting and hair to either side of the face, oval eyes, a long straight nose and a slit-like mouth. A deep circular hollow in the back of the head is for the attachment of a handle, and the break at the neck is where the head would have been soldered to the side of the vessel.
Finds of mounts are not uncommon since the mount represents the laver??s greatest point of weakness and thus is most vulnerable to being broken. For example there is an antiquarian find from North Hill, Colchester and a very similar mount discovered in Norfolk in 2000 (Acc. No. 1938.99; Val Fryer, pers comm). A virtually complete laver with female head mounts is in the collections of the British Museum (Cat. No. MME 1956, 7-2,1). This was made in England or France in the 15th century and is said to have been found in County Tipperary, Ireland. Representations of lavers occur in medieval art including, for example, in the background of the central panel of the Altarpiece of the Annunciation painted by Robert Campion of Tournai around 1425 (Young, B. & Varon, M. 2000. A Walk through the Cloisters, page 124). | Subjects: | Hanging Bowl | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Pooley, Laura - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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