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Description: | Gilt sheet copper alloy fragment of the end of a handle with incised floral decoration with sprays emanating at oblique angles from a central fleuret along to the expanded and rounded terminal of the handle. Some gilding remains in the form of two triangles of gold foil, following the oblique lines of two of the sprays, within the rounded terminal.
The decoration looks 17th-century in style, like that seen on buttons and hooked clasps and eyes of the time.
Read (2005) illustrates similar examples of this style with fleurets and ring and dot sprays on 17th-century buttons on pages 43-45, Nos.143, 150, 152 & 160.
Read (2008) illustrates similar examples on 17th-century hooked clasps and eyes on pages 170-171, Nos.639-644.
This handle might have been made in a mid to late 17th-century London enamels workshop, the products of which we are beginning to recognise across the country, though corrosion can obscure the characteristic palette range (Geoff Egan pers comm). | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Tyacke, Anna - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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