plaquette
- Museum number
- SLSeals.158
- Description
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Plaquette; lead; circular; Pentecost; Virgin seated with Dove; twelve Apostles.
- Production date
- 1576-1625
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 4.60 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Sir Hans Sloane’s ‘Miscellanea’ catalogue is a bound volume in Central Archives containing seven separate catalogues: ‘Miscellanies’, ‘Antiquities’, ‘Seals’, ‘Pictures’, ‘Mathematical Instruments’, ‘Agate Handles’ and ‘Agate Cups, Bottles, Spoons’. Each contains numbered entries that list and describe objects collected by Sloane between the 1680s and 1750s. Each catalogue begins with object number one.
Text from Sloane Miscellanea catalogue: Miscellanea Seals 158 "158. The Apostles with the Virgin Mary sitting inye midst of ym. & ye H. Ghost inform of a Dove appearing above them. Lead"
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Vertical cracks and worn.
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- SLSeals.158
- Additional IDs
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Sloane Miscellanea Catalogue number: 158 (Seals)