Mourning pendant. Gold, hair, glass and gold thread. Heart-shape frame with foliate engraved edge containing, under bevelled paste crystal on woven hair, background initials 'ally H' and number '17' in gold thread.
Depth: 18.0 mm
Height: 8.5 mm
Length: 21.0 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
-
1730
Part composed of gold thread hair gold paste (glass)
Accession number: PER.186-1923
Primary reference Number: 46063
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Mourning pendant" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/46063 Accessed: 2023-01-26 22:41:17
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|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-01-26 22:41:17|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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