Mourning pendant. Gold, hair, glass and gold thread. Rectangular, with corners cut off. Plain frame with reeded convex back containing, under bevelled glass, script monogram 'T M H' and looped border in gold thread with skull and crossbones, with two flying amoriai either side in relief in paint; all set on blue base.
Depth: 16.0 mm
Height: 7.0 mm
Length: 18.5 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 glass
Accession number: PER.187-1923
Primary reference Number: 46070
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/46070 Accessed: 2023-01-27 22:32:50
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University of Cambridge}}
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