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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy terminal from a chafing dish support of Post-Medieval date. The surviving fragment is flat and anthropomorphic in form comprising the remains of a flattened bar with incomplete central circular rivet hole at the incomplete attachment end. This forms the neck of the human figure, expanding to an oval shaped head that forms the terminal end, with projecting triangular brow, nose, mouth and chin along one edge. Both faces have incised decorative elements comprising single grooves that outline the hair, sub-triangular eyes with rounded upper edges, and single lines that run from the corner of each eye to the neck. The entire fragment measures 29.45mm in length, 17.11mm in width, 3.28mm in thickness, and 8.22g in weight.This is the terminal end from an anthropomorphic support that would have been positioned alongside two other similar supports on the outer edge of a chafing dish. These would have projected from the sides of the chafing dish in a similar way to figureheads on the prow of a ship. The current example belongs to a chafing dish of Lewis' (1973: pp. 67-68) Type F and finds parallels in a number of examples recorded through the PAS (e.g. NMS-48FEAE, WMID-C2B365, SUR-5FDFA2, LVPL-550424, etc.). It is of 16th-17th century AD date, c.1575-1650 AD.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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