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Description: | Part of a flat lead decorative figure, probably a Post Medieval toy. The remaining piece is a flat plaque, broadly triangular, in the shape of a skirt of a women broken off just below the waist with an old break. At the base of the skirt are two pairs of projecting tabs, now bent backwards and broken, there may have represented feed or fitted the figure into a base. On the front is cast a raised design showing bands of patterning on the skirt, probably representing fringes or flounces, below the waist a hand angles down holding a trianguar, probably partially furled fan, behind the hand is the base of a back flounce. The back is plain. The remaining piece is bent and torn in several places and is now 35.3mm long, 32.6mm wide and 1.7mm thick; it weighs 14.12 grams.The remaining section of design sugegsts the figure is seen in profile and the dress style, in particular the back flounce, might suggest the figure is shown in an elaborate gown of later 17th to 18th century or mid-later 19th century style with a later 17th to 18th century date most likely. The piece is not directly paralleled by the lead dolls published by Forsyth and Egan (2005:152-157), it would fit within their type 3, one sided figures. It is unusual in this type in being in profile rather than front facing. Type 3 seems more common in the 17th - 18th century, again fitting with this example. One of their examples (4.22) is complete with a flat base to allow it to stand , and this figure may have had similar.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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