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Description: | Post-medieval silver-gilt dress hook. Trefoil back-plate cusped around the edge with three separate domed bosses soldered to the front. There is a circle of twisted silver wire around the base of each dome, and further circles of filigree wire and pellets decorating each one. A separate cusped flower-head is secured at the junction of the three bosses by a butterfly clip with a domed head and rectangular sectioned arms bent outwards on the reverse. A rectangular sectioned attachment loop and circular sectioned hook are soldered to the reverse. The hook is distorted, but complete. There is gilding or traces of gilding overall, except for the cusped disc forming the central flower. Back-plate length 18mm. Width 18.5mm. Surviving length 30mm. Weight 3.83g. Cf. Gaimster et al (2002, 163, fig.4 and 5) for similar examples. 16th century.
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