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Description: | Small silver-gilt dress-hook in the shape of a flowerhead with five petals, cut out of sheet. The petals applied with gilded hemispherical bosses, each decorated with applied filigree circles and a central knop. At the centre a domed-headed pin, gilt, attached with a butterfly clip to the backplate, holding a second petal-shaped element in white silver. On the back, rectangular bar attachment and ends of butterfly clip, recurving hook now missing, only solder marks indicate its original position. 1.3 cm diameter. 16th Century. Round dress hooks in the form of stylised flowers have been reported through the Treasure Act, see for example a hook from Brampton, North Yorks acquired by the British Museum, MME 2001,11-5,1. The applied bosses recall the heads of Tudor dress pins, and are found on other dress hooks usually of the triangular type, see for example a hook from Martyr Worthy, Hampshire in the British Museum. MME 1999,7-1,1. | 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: | 1500
1600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Andrew Richardson | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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