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Plaque and chain, enamelled copper mounted in brass on wood, the undulating copper panel enamelled with the Virgin and Child beside an over-arching rock in a landscape with distant buildings, mounted within a nailed brass frame onto a retangular wood panel suspended from an elaborate bronze chain comprising from top to bottom a cast crown, a bronze-mounted moonstone(?), a disc stamped in relief with floral, leaf and interwoven twig motifs from which hangs a bronze-mounted lozenge enamelled with a star on a blue ground, the elements of the chain connected by links of single and triple twisted wires.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 51727
Acquisition
Gift, 30/8/2013
Given by Muriel Wilson
Measurements
Length
(cm): 44.5
Width
(cm): 13.2
Depth
(cm): 3
Length
(in): 17
Width
(in): 5
Depth
(in): 1
Techniques
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
cast
forming
Applied Art
stamped
decoration
Applied Art
cut
decoration
Applied Art
forged
nailed
twisted
decoration
Applied Art
Material
copper
bronze
wood
stone
Location
In store
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