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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker;
Production Place: England; Date(s): circa 1650 - 1750; Classification(s): jewellery, pendant; Acquisition: bequeathed by Perceval, Spencer George, 1922, Spencer George Perceval Bequest [PER.M.185-1923]
Description: Oval gold pendant: contains, under faceted paste crystal, the upper part of a skeleton between two seated amorini blowing trumpets, above a tablet inscribed 'come ye blessed', surrounded by a looped border of gold thread, all on a background of pale brown silk. On the back of the pendant is inscribed 'J. Figfall Obt.18:mar. 98 aeta: 57'. Part of the inscription is badly rubbed. The pedant appears at one time to have been mounted as the head of a pin. | 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 pendant Unknown | Temporal: | name=late 17th, early 18th century; start=1650; end=1750 | 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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