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Description: | Vitreous paste cameo plaque mounted on a circular blue glass base. The cameo is decorated with a profile portrait depicting Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758-1805). The cameo is flanked by two cornucopia made of gold and silver paper, (the fruit is made of pearls) set within a border of seed pearls (the 'pearls' are small glass beads painted silver) and gold wire. The whole of the plaque is glazed by a domed glass cover.
caption: Plaque | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Horatio Nelson plaques | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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