dress-hook
- Museum number
- 2002,0712.1
- Description
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Composite silver-gilt dress hook with lozenge-shaped back-plate. The hook is applied with a stylized quatrefoil flower cast in high relief and held in place by a central rivet terminating in a butterfly clip on the reverse. The central knop of the flower-head is textured with cross-hatching. The quatrefoil flower is surrounded along the edge of the back plate with a fleur-de-lis in high relief separated by pierced cusps. Recurving hook broken along the length.
- Production date
- 16thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 30 millimetres
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Weight: 5 grammes
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Width: 20 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Analysis by X-ray fluorescence produced a silver content of 95 per cent.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2005-2006 25 Jul-13 Jan, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Buried Treasure: Finding Our Past
2005 12 Feb-26 Jun, Newcastle, Hancock Museum, Buried Treasure: Finding Our Past
2004-2005 1 Oct-15 Jan, Manchester Museum, Buried Treasure: Finding Our Past
2004 30 Apr-21 Sep, Cardiff, National Museums & Galleries of Wales, Buried Treasure: Finding Our Past
2003-2004 21 Nov-14 Mar, London, BM, Buried Treasure: Finding Our Past
- Condition
- Good
- Acquisition date
- 2002
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 2002,0712.1
- Additional IDs
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Treasure/PAS number: T370 (Treasure number)
