Silver mount

Description

A mount, probably from a shrine, in silver. It is a semi-circular filigree mount set with a pearl and stones. The settings are crude and probably originally from a roundel of a cross which had the arm ends inset with pearls. German, middle Rhine or French, Meuse valley [Mosan].

Object data

Accession number

MG 068

Creator

Meuse Valley Region

Date made

12th or 13th century AD

Materials

Metal; Silver; Animal; Animal product; Pearl; Stone

Collection

Dimensions (cm)

Provenance

File of material relating to a filigree mount. Includes photocopy of information card with photocopy of image of object (date unspecified). Comment on the information card states that object is from a type of shrine common in the Middle Rhine and Limoges. Also recorded on the information is annotation which states that Raghnall Ó Floinn said about object that it is possibly part of a clasp of a cope. Also, that it should be compared to the Suzy chalice from Saint Donis which is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; document (date unspecified) which gives information conveyed by Neil Straford, British Museum, and Howard Ricketts, about the object. Stratford dates object to the twelfth century and attributes it to the Middle Rhine, Germany. Ricketts attributes it to the Meuse Valley, late twelfth-early thirteenth centuries.

Place of collection

Technique

Copyright Attribution

Silver mount | Metal,Silver, Animal,Animal product,Pearl, Stone | 12th or 13th century AD | The Hunt Collection | PD

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