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Description: | Fragment of projecting dish-support from a post-medieval chafing dish. This fragment is roughly L-shaped in plan and flat in cross-section. It is anthropomorphic in design and shows the head of an open-mouthed figure, which could be either male or female. The face has an incised oval eye and is incised around the mouth to show lips. The inner curve of the nose is incised up and over the eye and joins with an incised oval ?flap? that hangs over where the ear should be, possibly to represent the sides of a cap. This design is found on both sides of the support.
From the head, the shaft of the support extends downwards and has a circular piercing halfway along its length. Below the piercing, the shaft then bends backward at just over 90 degrees. The support then continues to a worn break. The object is 49.94mm long and 17.4mm wide, and approximately 3mm thick. It has a dark green patina with patches of lighter green corrosion.
This support, along with two others, would have extended from the chafing dish much like the figure on a prow of a ship. The chafing dish would have been filled with charcoal and other dishes placed over it, resting on the supports, so that food could be kept warm. This support is of Lewis?s Type F, which he dates to c. 1575-1650 (J. M. Lewis, 1973, the Antiquaries Journal, ?Some types of metal chafing dish?). | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1575
1650 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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