Silver medallion

Description

A silver medallion depicting on one side the Annunciation and on the other side St Gregorys Mass. There is a Latin inscription around the edge and a cabled rim. There is a suspension loop and ring. Flemish or German.

Object data

Accession number

MG 070

Date made

15th century or 16th century AD

Materials

Metal; silver

Collection

Dimensions (cm)

Archival information

File of material relating to a medallion with Annunciation and Saint Gregorys mass. Includes photocopy of information card with photocopy of image of object (date unspecified); photocopy of extract from unidentified publication (date unspecified) which gives brief biography of Saint Gregory or Pope Gregory I, the Great; Hunt Museum object comment sheet (25 April 1996) containing comments made about object by John Cherry, British Museum. States that object probably dates from the late fifteenth century; extract, and transcription of same (c. 1952), from exhibition catalogue for 'Art Treasures in Thomond' held at Limerick Art Gallery (Limerick: Limerick Leader, 1952) which comprises description of object; extract from exhibition catalogue in German (c. 1972) for Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim, which describes object and contains image of same; transcription of information from exhibition catalogue also present.

Place of collection

Technique

Copyright Attribution

Silver medallion | Metal,silver | 15th century or 16th century AD | The Hunt Collection | PD

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