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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1670 - 1730; Classification(s): jewellery, mourning slide; Acquisition: bequeathed by Perceval, Spencer George, 1922 [PER.185-1923]
Description: Mourning slide. Gold, silk, paste crystal. Oval, containing, under faceted paste crystal, the upper part of a skeleton flanked by two cherubs with trumpets. Below is a tablet with the words COME YE BLESSED. The scene is surrounded by a looped border of copper-coloured thread, all set on background of pale brown silk. On the back is inscribed 'J Figfall/Obt 18 : mar./98 ceta: 57'. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | jewellery Unknown mourning slide | Temporal: | name=late 17th Century; start=1670; end=1730 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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