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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): circa 1700 - circa 1800; Classification(s): jewellery, brooch; Acquisition: bequeathed by Perceval, Spencer George, 1922, S.G. Perceval Bequest [PER.M.267-1923]
Description: Gold, ivory and hair. Painted oval with chased edge, containing under glass, an oval disk of ivory painted with a scene showing a woman seated by an urn on a pedestal with a woodland background. This set on woven hair background surrounded by engraved gold frame. Glass cover. Reverse: glass, marquise 'window' to display woven hair. Provided with a ring for use as a pendant. | 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 brooch | Temporal: | name=18th century; start=1700; end=1800 | 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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