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Description: | Medieval lead-alloy flask-shaped ampulla, c.1350-1500. The obverse bears a four-petalled motif, each petal/leaf decorated with a midrib and spots, over a cross-hatched background. The reverse is decorated with a cross-hatched heart with a crown on top with downward-curving points and cross-hatched lining. Both handles survive although one is badly damaged and loose. The rim is damaged. Length 48.56mm, width 31.05mm, thickness 6.06mm, weight 28.61g. A virtually identical ampulla (except for the crown on top of the heart) from Salisbury is illustrated in the Salisbury Museum catalogue, although it is not catalogued and is apparently in a personal collection (Fig 186). It is suggested that the four-petalled motif could represent a four-leaved clover or the true-love Herb Paris. The crown on top of the heart is similar to crowns which appear as the main motif on the reverse of three other ampullae from Salisbury, with cross hatched lining and the same downward-curving points (Salisbury catalogue no.s 140-2, figs 182-4). According to the catalogue it is likely that these three were made in Salisbury, but other ampullae found in Aylesbury, Lincs and St Richard's Friary in Pontefract, Yorks bear similar crowns.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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