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Description: | Copper alloy possible strap end. Cast object with a bifurcated expanded openwork end possibly representing fruit or flowers with small loops at its ends (one lost) and with basal spurs, and a tapering baluster-shaped terminal which is adorned with leaves or sepals at its wider end and bears a collared knop terminal. The object is gilded on all its external surfaces, though not within the bifurcated end. It is suggested that a strap would be clenched between the openwork ends with stitched attachment at the loops. The style is strongly influenced by ornamental vegetal motifs popular in Renaissance art and décor. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1600.Length: 50.8mm, Width: 19.2mm, Thickness (at wide end): 7.8mm, Diameter (at baluster, long axis): 8mm, Weight: 11.50gms.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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