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Description: | A Post-Medieval copper-alloy support (one of three) from the top of a chafing dish. It is in the form of an anthropomorphic figure with detailing on the the head, which could be either male or female. The face has an incised oval eye and is incised around the open mouth to show the lips. The inner curve of the nose is incised up and over the eye and joins with an incised oval ??flap?? that hangs over where the ear would be. This detailing is found on both sides. A separate, movable 'arm' would originally have been attached to the figure.
From the head, the flat shaft, which is 2.5mm thick, extends downwards narrowing until it curves at nearly 90 degrees, continuing to narrow bending though 30 degrees until it meets a thicker section (7.6mm thick) with a sub-rectangular cross section. There is a circular copper-alloy rivet through this part. The shaft terminates in a flat end, into which a semi-circular notch has been cut. The shaft is 77.5mm long, 14.1mm wide and weighs 19.4g.
This support, along with the two others, would have extended from the upper edge of the chafing dish much like the figure on a prow of a ship. The dish would have been filled with charcoal and other vessels would have been placed over it, resting on the three supports, so that food could be kept warm. This support is from a chafing dish of Lewis??s Type F, which he dates to c. 1575-1650 (J. M. Lewis, 1973, Antiquaries Journal 53,1, 59-70 ??Some types of metal chafing dish??). | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Jackson, Jennifer - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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