Maker: Unknown
Slide mounted as a pin, gold, dark grey silk, paste - crystal. Oval, with faceted paste covering a picture of a reclining skeleton, lying on a coffin of gilt metal with the words 'I REST' on a background of dark grey silk. Gold border with edge of two types of twisted wire.
History note: Unknown befroe testator
S.G. Perceval Bequest
Depth: 21.0 mm
Height: 6.0 mm
Length: 18.0 mm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1922) by Perceval, Spencer George
Late 17th Century
Early 18th Century
Circa
1670
-
Circa
1730
Part
composed of
gold
silk (textile)
paste (glass)
glass
Pin
Length 53.5 mm
Accession number: PER.M.179-1923
Primary reference Number: 45999
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Pin" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/45999 Accessed: 2023-02-01 20:17:57
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/45999
|title=Pin
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-02-01 20:17:57|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-45999
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