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Description: | Reproduction of the Aelfred Jewel found near Athelney(?) Abbey Somersetshire and now at the Ashmolean Museum Oxford. The original is -
The figure is that of a man holding a fleur-de-lys in each hand. The reverse is a detached plate of gold (lying immediately on the back of the miniature) on which is elegantly traced a fleaur-de-lys, bracnhing into three stems. The edge is bevelled towards the front, and contains the lengend:AELFRED MEE HE HT GEWYRCAN {that is AELFRED ME ORDERED TO BE WROUGHT}. The gem terminates in a grotesque figure, representing the head of some sea monster, probably (says Dr. Musgrave) a dolphin; on the reverse, the lower jaw is wanting, its place being supplied by a scaly flat surface; the mouth of this animal embraces a small tube, traversed by a gold pin, apparently a rivet, originally passed through some wooden stem to which it has been fixed, and which has peirished."
Reproduction of the Aelfred Jewel, the original of which is held in the Ashmolean Museum. Figure of a man holding a fleur-de-lys in each hand. It is covered with glass. The edge is bevelled towards the front, and bears the legend "AELFRED MEC HEHT GEWYRCAN" (Aelfred me ordered to be wrought). The gem terminates in the representation of a monster with a wooden snout. There is plate of gold on reverse, engraved with a fleur-de-lys branching into three stems.
Label: Black cardboard label with white handwriting
Label: Printed display label, black and red ink on white card with a black border.
caption: Frontal view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 1.48
caption: Rear view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 1.48
caption: General view of label of Horniman Museum object no 1.48 | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | wood ornaments (art) silver glass enamelling gold plating | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-196436 | Go to resource |
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