badge
- Museum number
- OA.100
- Description
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Badge, funerary; tin-lead; the Black Prince worshipping the Trinity, within the Garter; knight, probably the Black Prince, kneeling before Trinity seated on rainbow and holding before him the Crucifix; knight wears tabard with Arms of England and has thrown down his gauntlet before him; above is angel in clouds holding shield of Black Prince, quarterly England and France ancient with label of three points; behind is angel holding helmet and crest, Lion of England; all in open-work and enclosed in garter; inscribed in black letter 'hony soyt ke mal y pense'.
- Production date
- 1376 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 103 millimetres
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Width: 79 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- On display (G40/dc10/sD)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1989 1 Apr-30 Sep, London, The Herald's Museum at the Tower of London, British Heraldry
1987-1988 6 Nov-6 Mar, London, Royal Academy of Arts, Age of Chivalry: Art in Plantagenet England 1200-1400
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- OA.100
