clasp
- Museum number
- 2013,8034.3.a-b
- Description
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Clasp, silver-gilt, in two D-shaped parts forming an oval when closed, repoussé work with pierced border, braided wire edging, applied and beaded filigree plaques at the centre, and figure of the Virgin and Child on the left half with crown and sunrays above. Two projecting loops on each half with four hand-pierced hanging letters: M P and R D.
- Production date
- 19thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 10.50 centimetres
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Width: 11.70 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For similar clasps, see S. Sbensson, 'Folkligt draksilver', Västeras 1978, p. 12. Andres Møller (1772-1846) became master in 1802 and is recorded as making Amager breast clasps, worn by the Dutch community living on the island of Amager, Denmark since the 16th century.
For a similar brooch in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, with the initials THPD for Trin Hans Petersens Dotter, see Inge Behrmann, 'Volkstümlicher Schmuck', Hamburg 1985, no. 850, p. 288.
- Location
- Not on display
- 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
- 2013,8034.3.a-b
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: MWI. 7983 (former Whitworth Art Gallery inv.no.)