lacing ring;
brooch;
fastener
- Museum number
- 2013,8034.13
- Description
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Brooch, silver-gilt. Originally a five petalled domed repoussé bodice fastener or lacing ring which has had an extra petal added to form a six-petal rosette with a row of tiny cannetille (filigree wire spirals) rosettes surrounding central cannetille rings. A brooch fitting has been added and is now separate (the pin missing). Maker's mark.
- Production date
- 19C
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 4 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For bodice fasteners (maljor) See Kulturen 1952, pp. 67 & 68, figs. 24 & 25. The maker's mark OL is possibly that of Olaus Liander of Ystad, but his mark is not recorded with pellets.
See also MacIver Percival, 'Chats on old jewellery and trinkets', London 1912, p. 197, figs. 5-7.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- brooch fitting is separate, pin missing
- Acquisition date
- 2013
- Acquisition notes
- Part of a collection of mostly Norwegian and Swedish traditional jewellery deposited at the Whitworth Art Gallery in 1898, see 'The Manchester Whitworth Insitute. Report of the Council, 1898', p. 9-10, where it is described as 'an interesting collection of what is known as Peasant Jewellery of Norway and Sweden, together with some notable specimens of the modern manufactures of the kind from workshops at Bergen'. The collection was on display at the Whitworth in 1903 (Report of the Council, 1903, p. 14), but in neither report is the donor recorded.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 2013,8034.13
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: MWI. 7966 (former Whitworth Art Gallery inv.no.)