Maker: Unknown
Gold and ivory, hair and bone. Oval gold frame set with figure of woman leaning on pedestal, made of bone, which is inscribed: 'Friendship lives and weeps', with urn above, in relief, made of hair with gold thread trim. Curtains surround the scene. The curtains and the figure of the woman are painted on the ivory background.
History note: Unknown before testator
S.G. Perceval Bequest
Depth: 25 mm
Height: 5.5 mm
Length: 32.5 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
Part composed of bone hair gold ivory
Accession number: PER.M.248-1923
Primary reference Number: 46504
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) "Pendant" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/46504 Accessed: 2023-02-01 09:42:23
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/46504
|title=Pendant
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-02-01 09:42:23|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-46504
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