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Description: | Cast copper alloy furniture fitting, now bent out of shape, probably a drawer handle, with flattened fanned finial which could have been used as a pull. The upper face of the finial has two pairs of parallel ridges on either side of a recessed central band, that all taper towards the connecting collar with the mount. This collar is circular in section and widens to meet one end of the mount which has the broken end of a raised rectangular rivet protruding out of the back, probably used to stop the handle rotating. This end of the mount tapers to a pointed knop and the other end has a lozenge-shaped knop with three parallel transverse ridges across the width of it, which measures about 16 mm. The mount is now bent into a semi-circular shape in profile but was probably orginally flat in profile and attached flush to the side of a piece of furniture. The finial may also be purely decorative so that the mount was not functional but a detail instead of a larger piece such as the handle of a brass vessel or a finial on a brass lamp or inkstand etc.Eveleigh in Brass and Brassware (1995) illustrates a similar brass tankard handle on page 11, which is dated to c.1760, and an illustration of similar finials on brass lamps and lanterns on page 25, which dates from 1818.Similar examples of drawer handles with fanned attachments can be seen on Arts and Crafts Furniture such as on a cabinet illustrated in Negus (1989) on page 230, which dates from the 19th century, and on English Chippendale furniture on page 177, which dates from the mid-18th century.
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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