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Description: | An incomplete Post Medieval cast copper alloy enamelled mount possibly for a leather strap or harness. The mount was originally sub-lozengiform in plan. In the centre there is a white enamelled flower, most likely a rose, set on a green enamelled background. The shape is expanded and embellished at one end by the lower petals of another white enamelled flower. The centre of the flower creates a knop at the edge of the mount and the two side petals are used to slightly contour the shape of the outside edge. This arrangement looks to have originally been repeated with something similar extending the mount at the opposite end, but the majority is now missing from an old break. The reverse of the mount is flat and undecorated, but at the undamaged embellished end, in close proximity to the edge, there is a sharp integral pointed prong that is bent inwardly to touch the reverse face of the mount. The off-centre positioning of this prong suggests there may have been another placed symmetrically which is now missing. The inferred two-prong attachment method is typical of 17th century mounts. No parallels could be found on the PAS database, although there are some similar albeit un-enamelled mounts shown in Read; Metal Artefacts of Antiquity vol 1 (2001) p33-35. The enamelling applied to an otherwise ordinary object suggests a degree of affluence on the part of its original owner.
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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