plaquette
- Museum number
- SLSeals.172
- Description
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Plaquette; pewter; rectangular; Bacchanalian scene; architectural ruin; youth reclining, satyr, group of Bacchants, sheep; fat satyr holding barrel with naked youths; perforated twice for suspension; corners clipped.
- Production date
- 1530 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 7.30 centimetres
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Width: 6.20 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 172 "172. Bacchanalians, viz fiv e figures, one of wch. is sleeping wth a sheep by him, another lying cross a Hogshead: &c. A raised impression on Lead, square, wth ye angles cut off."
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Slight wear.
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- SLSeals.172
- Additional IDs
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Sloane Miscellanea Catalogue number: 172 (Seals)