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Description: | Swivelling support from a copper alloy chafing dish. The find consists of two elements, an incomplete bar, topped by a grotesque man's head shown in profile, he has a large nose, thick lips and a wide trapezoid eyes, these details being shown by deeply incised lines. A beard may be suggested, but there is no hair, the head perhaps being covered by a cap. The bar curves away to form rounded shoulders below which it is broken. The other element is a straight, bifurcated, tuning fork like, bar, the first part being secured between the arms by a rivet which passes through both parts. It too is truncated. Supports like this were used in sets of three on chafing dishes, the part bearing the head being riveted to the dish to form legs and the other part being free to swivel over the top of the dish to support the plate. These supports are discussed by Gordon Bailey (Detector Finds 4. 58-9) with illustrations of their use. A date in the sixteenth or seventeenth century is likely.
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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