tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15739268238865856952024-03-05T13:40:13.654+01:00e l i g i u sMedieval goldsmith workNinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16792585844225090263noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573926823886585695.post-50228872768685787142013-07-01T01:00:00.000+02:002013-07-01T10:44:28.558+02:00Rubies and pearls<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">
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Some projects with precious stones and pearls are taking much more time then I would ever imagine. But the way from choosing an object, untill a finished item is a long way.<br />
The most tricky part is the gems. Finding a write type od stone, shape, size, colour and quality that will not ruin the budget takes time. <br />
For this little brooch I ordered pearls three times before I got the right ones.<br />
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But let me guide you thru a whole process.<br />
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First choose your jewel and find, as many photos, drawing and information about it, as possible. Sometimes it requires a visit at the museum and making some extra photos from different angels to have enough material to start in the workshop.<br />
I probably will end up with buying some extra museum catalogues and publications ( you can never have enouth of them! ).<br />
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This time I have chosen the brooch from the Erfurt treasure, small elegant with a pin type that is easy to put on the thick textile like a felt hat or a woolen houpelande.<br />
I havent been at the museum in Erfurt yet, but the is a very detailed caltalouge from the exhibition that gives me all the details I need.<br />
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The next stage is finding the right measurements. That you get for the museum database item descriptions or you need to estimate it by your own.<br />
Making several templates from paper or brass to make sure everything is right, before cutting the metal parts in silver.<br />
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Now the I can finally start in my workshop. Cutting and constructing all elements.</div>
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At this stage I already need to have all the stones and pearls. When I am sure that all parts fits together I may solder it to one piece.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">A silver brooch base after soldering and cleaning in the acid.</span></div>
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To set a stone I need to make a tight bezel and after inserting a stone press it tightly around with a polished steel tool. </div>
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Pearls are bit more problematic. If I plan to gold gild the brooch I cannot install the pearls - they are to delicate to survive the acid bath which is used for galvanic gilding. That means I need to rivet it as the very last stage of making the jewel.<br />
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Hammering the rivets on back of the pearls requires a steady hand - be sure you hit the metal 0.7mm rivet not the pearl, otherwise you wil need to start all from begining.<br />
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Making the first item is always a long process. Next ones can be made much quicker as I do not need again that much time for reaserching, setting measurments and making templates.<br />
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But for me whole this stage is the most chalenging and exciting. All those preparation before I even sit in the workshop are the most imoportant and will affect the final look of the project.<br />
The rest is just precision, steady hands and some hours playing with metal: sawing, filing, drilling, soldering, polishing, stone setting, riveting...<br />
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Ninahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16792585844225090263noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573926823886585695.post-25604131186020861022013-06-30T17:06:00.000+02:002013-06-30T17:08:30.604+02:00Silversmithing in MiddelaldercentretThe course I took in Fredericia was in April. It took me some months to complete a small set of tools to be able to start working with the new technique in a medieval workshop.<br />
I got really lucky, an old silversmith has presented me some old tools. Some of them I could with out any adjustments use in the workshop, some needed a bit of work to make them look like thoes from the iconography.<br />
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As I was browsing the images of the workshops from the Middle ages I could often see some silversmith work, beside of making smaller jewels.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A late 15th century workshop by the Master of Bileam showing St Eligius at work</td></tr>
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It seems that the goldsmith and silversmith was actually a same craft in Middle ages.<br />
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Than if I want to call myself a medieval goldsmith, there is no choice but grab a hammer and shape some vessels.<br />
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Good for me that Denmark is still a place where silversmithing craft that is doing quite well and it is still a part of the "precious smiths" training.<br />
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I took the trip to Fredericia one of the schools for goldsmiths to take part in a course.<br />
Two weeks with different types of hammers. anvils, stakes, mallets etc.<br />
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It was a great fun!<br />
But honestly I did not imagine that this is such a slow process.<br />
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Shaping a vessel takes days or even weeks and hundreds of thousands of hammer strikes. Than there is still some more hammering with the planishing hammer to smooth and polish the surface.<br />
I also discovered that it has much more similarities to armour-making than I thought. Good I do not have to work with a glowing-hot metal to shape it. <br />
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Now I need to introduce this technique to my medieval workshop.Ninahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16792585844225090263noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573926823886585695.post-27238413064013956382012-10-31T21:27:00.001+01:002012-11-01T13:52:55.668+01:00Amethyst pie-crust ring.<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">
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I do make projects with precious stones sometimes.<br />
Here is one of the latest ones: a silver, gold gilded ring with a deep violet coloured amethyst.<br />
This high setting of the stone allows the light to make all those beautiful reflexes with in the stone - giving more "life" in it. <br />
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For comparison - the ring from the Erfurt Treasure I try to reproduce. Only the gold setting with the stone survived the band probably was cut away and re-melted or re-used for other piece of jewellery.<br />
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I am often asked about which gems where used in Middle Ages. That a good moment to put here a little more information about it.<br />
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Most of the precious stones used in medieval jewellery was imported from the Far East. From the region of India, Afghanistan, Burma, Sri Lanka. Some where also mined in Europe, like garnets. They came from region of Bohemia (Czech Republik) which made them much available and
affordable, that is why they are among the most popular of stones used in jewellery.<br />
The shaping of the stones was still a new and a costly craft in 14th and 15th century, so most of the stones are being left in their natural shape just polished to give them more shine. This type of stone shape is called <i>cabochon</i>.<br />
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Here is a few more examples of similar rings with different types of stones.<br />
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Another gold ring from the same Erfurt Treasure with almandine ( a type of garnet).</div>
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Two gold rings from the Clomar Treasure with a red garnet and with a green tourmaline.<br />
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The knowlege of different types of stones and how to check their quality was a important knowlege for many merchants. I one of the letters from 1440 a Florentine merchant Giovanni da Uzzano, shares his opinion about the most desirable precious stones in all colours and how to judge their quality.<br />
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<i>"Fine <b>rubies</b> should be like goodly pomegranate seeds,</i><br />
<i>good <b>balas-rubies</b> should be like a pomegranate that is not well ripened,</i><br />
<i>a good<b> emerald</b> will show greener than any other green it is laid beside,</i><br />
<i>a good <b>topaz</b> is like shining gold, and most of them look as if they are split.</i><br />
<i>A good <b>sapphire</b> resembles good azure pigment, and is on the white side,</i><br />
<i>a good <b>aquamarine</b> is like sapphire, but more whitish,</i><br />
<i>a good <b>citrine</b> looks like wax, with something of red in it,</i><br />
<i>a good <b>garne</b>t looks like a peach flower.</i><br />
<i>A good <b>diamond</b> looks like steel and is tranlslucent like glass, and has sharp points,</i><br />
<i>but another sort tends towards yellow, and third sort looks like crystal, though in shape all three are alike.</i><br />
<i>A good <b>jasper</b>
is green, with shining spots, and seems oiled-most of this sort, comes
with figures; another kind is brownish green, with red spots.</i><br />
<i>A good<b> chalcedony</b> is either white with a shade of blue, or white with a shade of yellow.</i><br />
<i>A good <b>cornelian</b> looks like cherries that are really red. </i><br />
<i>A good <b>amethysts</b> are violet colour.</i><br />
<i>A good <b>turquoise</b> looks dove-white in colour and is not transparent."</i><br />
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Bibliography:</div>
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Lightbown, R. W.: <i>Mediaeval European Jewelry</i> . London 1992</div>
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Mecking, Oliver (el al.): Der Schatzfund - Analysen -
Herstellungstechniken - Rekonstruktionen. <i>Die Mittelalterliche Judische
Kultur in Erfurt</i>, Bd. 2.Weimar 2010. </div>
Ninahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16792585844225090263noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573926823886585695.post-44039308476648903102012-10-29T00:29:00.002+01:002012-10-29T00:29:47.145+01:00All that gold!<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finished copper ornaments gilded with gold.</td></tr>
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The repousse works came back from gilding and they sure shine bright! They are looking so much more precious, I am truly suprised with the result.</div>
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I did write that they are finished, but it does not mean there is no more work to do.<br />
Now, time to make a dress to put all that gold on.<br />
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I'll keep you informed with progress.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gold gilded repousse dress ornaments - also known as bezants.</td></tr>
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Ninahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16792585844225090263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573926823886585695.post-74936024140247001702012-09-30T12:51:00.000+02:002012-09-30T18:51:56.738+02:00Repousse work and a mixture called tenax.<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A few examples of the repousse work I made recently.</td></tr>
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I am experimenting with new a technique called repousse. Using punches - polished, blunt steel tools, the image is hammered down and pressed in to a metal foil. <br />
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It was used to produce a light weight metal ornaments which where sewn on dresses and church textiles.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">14th century clay "dolls" from Nuremberg (Germany) with big floral metal ornaments.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">14th and 15th century dress ornaments. <br />
Silver-gilt and copper-gilt. <br />
Kloster St Andreas, Saren, Switzerland.<br />
Those are sewn on a dress made for a statue imaging the Jesus as a child. </td></tr>
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But first things first. The metal foils is fixed on the black mixture, which the Monk Teophilus calls <i>tenax</i>.<br />
In his manuscript "Diversarum Artium Schedula" from 12th century he gives the recipe for preparing it:<br />
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<i>"Grind a piece of brick or roof tile very small (fine), </i><br />
<i>and melt some pitch in am earthenware pot and add little wax.</i><br />
<i> These being melted together, mingle the powder of the tile, and stir it strongly </i><br />
<i>and pour it in water. And when it has begun to grow cold,</i><br />
<i> dip both hands into the water and macerate it for long time,</i><br />
<i> until you can extend and draw out this composition like a skin.</i><br />
<i> You instantly melt this composition and will fill the vial to the top. (...)"</i><br />
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- from Chapter LIX</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Components ready to be melted. Some brick powder, resin, pitch, and wax (not on the photo).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Part of the original Pages in the manuscript "Diversarum Artium Schedula" from Vienna.</td></tr>
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I tired this recipe, but than I decided to add also some resin to improve the elasticity and than it was perfect. Probably if I would be working in a cooler temperature the resin would not be needed, but as I was working with it in the middle of the summer, extra resin made a huge improvement.<br />
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But what makes this composition such a good base for the working with a metal foil ?<br />
There are several reasons:<br />
First, when heated close to the fire it become liquid and sticky, so the metal can be easily fixed on the surface (you can also heat up the metal piece and melt it into the pitch).<br />
It holds and stabilize the metal while working and give an elastic base to press the image down.<br />
Secondly, it is hard enough to give a good resistance and elastic in the same moment.<br />
Finally, what is also impotent it burns away totally which makes cleaning of the work much easier and quicker.<br />
Only a thin coat of brick powder remains on the surface, you can brush it away or add a few drops of water and use as a cleaning/polishing compound to bring some light to your work</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A wooden board with tenax and some tenax rods for future projects.</td></tr>
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When the mixture is ready I pur it on the wooden board. I make 4-5 layers waiting until each one cools down before putting the next one.<br />
I prepare the metal pieces and heat them in to the fire until they glow red, to make them softer and easier to work with.</div>
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I use steal punches to hammer the image on the foil. I work on the reverse side so it is important to check from time to time how it look also on the front side.</div>
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Smaller ones are based on a design from the bronze matrix found in Norway.<br />
Already with little holes for sewing them on.</td></tr>
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That was a very interesting project, not only because I had to learn a totally new goldsmith technique, it was mostly because it's a link connecting goldsmith work with a textile projects with are made in the Middelaldercentret. Two different techniques but both have the same purpose - showing the status of the owner as much as satisfying the aesthetic needs.<br />
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It also made some visitors of the museum revise their point of view on a goldsmiths work in Middle Ages, and realize that what we call now "jewellery" is quite a modern concept,<br />
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There spectrum of products made by goldsmiths where much wider: dress ornaments, buttons, hook-and-eyes, buckles, metal beads where as important as rings and brooches and pendents. Also the metals that goldsmith use was not only gold and silver as it is now. Gilded copper and bronze was extremely popular, because it made a similar efect when weared but was much cheaper to produce. <br />
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I surely going to work more with repousse. It gives a great effect and I am able to produce pieces which can be so complex but still feel very delicate and pleasant to wear.<br />
They can be used stitched on the textiles, riveted on a leather as belt ornaments, hammered on a chests covered with velvet, used for book covers, or as an element of even more elaborate works.</div>
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Theophilus: <i>An essay upon various Arts in three books by Theophilus, called also Rugerus, priest and monk forming an Encyclopaedia of Chritian Art of the eleventh century</i>. Translated, with notes by Robert Hendrie, London 1847.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Theune, Claudia: Der mittelalterliche Schatzfund aus der Judengasse in Salzburg. In <i>Ars Sacra. Kunstschätze des Mittelalters aus dem Salzburg Museum. Jahresschrift Salzburg Museum</i> 53, Salzburg/Oberndorf 2010, p.</span><br />
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Ninahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16792585844225090263noreply@blogger.com5Middelaldercentret, Nykøbing Falster, Denmark54.7749485 11.841008254.76579 11.8212672 54.784107 11.860749199999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573926823886585695.post-73331027144359798572012-09-18T23:23:00.001+02:002012-09-18T23:37:15.656+02:00Visit in my new workshop<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">
Today let me take you for a walk around my new workplace. We are in the year 1402 in the town Sundk<span class="st"><i>ø</i></span>bing. It is a trade town by the baltic sea, with a harbour, over 10 houses and a tournament field.<br />
My house is the first one when you entering the gate, just next to the market place, and vis-à-vis blacksmith (just if need some custom tools).</div>
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Next to the house I got a big garden with vegetables, herbs and fruit trees. </div>
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My workshop is in the front room with a window coming to the main street. There you can find a small bench, anvils, hammers, tongs and cutters, punches, chemicals, metals, showcases and all the items I need to have in reach while working.</div>
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In the backroom. There is a fireplace, table with benches. shelves with all kind of ceramics and cooking equipment. With the ladder standind by the wall, you can climb up to the sleeping place under the rooftop. The back doors are leading to the garden.</div>
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It is not a big house, but it got everything that is needed: a working bench with some light, the fireplace. I am successively filling it up with new tools and materials to beable to make more different metalwork in the way a 15th century goldsmith would.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I was quiet on the blog lately
but it doesn’t mean I haven’t done any nice projects. That was a very busy
summer. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I started a new work in the Middelaltercentret in Nykobing Falster as a
late 14th/early 15th century goldsmith.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the last months I spent a lot of time
researching on medieval tools and workshops appearance, with filling up my new
workshop with tools, arranging space, making show cases etc.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Also with leaning to make
some nice metal pieces without help of any the modern equipment.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I had
some fails and successes on the way, but having a great time either way!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In my workshop with some wax casting forms and precious stones and pearls in a front, and few anvils and a show case in the back.</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Here is a link to
museum:</span><br />
<a href="http://www.middelaldercentret.dk/"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">http://www.middelaldercentret.dk/</span></a><br />
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<br />Ninahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16792585844225090263noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573926823886585695.post-88137958617810438912012-02-04T14:52:00.003+01:002012-02-05T00:40:16.209+01:00E letter love locket-brooch from th Metropolitan Museum<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">
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As the February is considered to be the month of love - today I got a medieval lover gift.</div>
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It is a brooch but it is also a locket - it has a hinge and after turning a small lock, it opens and shows the inscription: </div>
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<i> • V/REWELININ • VRME DEI + HERZE • LEVE• /NSTE • MOIS IC
IN • /•SIN</i> </div>
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which means</div>
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"Fair lady, may I always remain close to your heart."</div>
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Those words are safely kept from the sight of others and only a wearer knows about them.<br />
Inside the brooch there is some space which might be used for storing some kind of a small gift, a reminder of the adorer, like a piece of hair - secular love relict.<br />
All that features together creates a very intimate piece of jewellery and something far more precious than gold and all pearls it is made of.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The copy of the brooch unlocked and in two parts, before fixing the hinge rivet.</td></tr>
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The cover of the brooch has a shape of letter E and in its centre bears the figure of a man holding arrows
aimed at his heart. The small holes seen on the top are the places where six small pearls will be set (there is still one remaining at the original brooch)</div>
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I started with preparing the wax models. The corpus of the letter was cut and carved hollow inside and the figure of the man was made with a wax build-up technique.</div>
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After casting, all elements were assembled together. The figure was riveted on place, the hole for a closing lock was cut in the back panel and the closing "hook" with a silver bead was set. The pin was installed inside.<br />
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Putting on this brooch is probably not the most
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How to wear it? First, the lock have to be open, than the piece of cloth has to be pulled thru the hole in a back panel and punched thru with a pin. After straightening the cloth brooch is on and you need only to close it again to keep the inscriptions hidden.<br />
Here are photos of the brooch just before the engravings were made were you can see how it is constructed.<br />
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The spoon from Stockholm is already casted. I have made it in bronze (the final one will be silver).</div>
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It has been hammered to make it deeper and engraved.</div>
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The previous post about the making of the spoon can be found <a href="http://eligius-hammer.blogspot.com/2011/12/silver-crowned-spoon.html">here</a>.</div>
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It has an elaborate gothic architectural design on a front and a hunting scene with hounds chasing a rabbit on the back panel. The holly relicts would be safely kept inside and always stay visible thru two small windows. It is possible to open the pendant - the panel slides down to show the precious content. </div>
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For the comparison - the photo of the original pendant.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The original pendant from the Metropolitan Museum in New York<br />
Material: silver, gold gilt<br />
Dimensions: 57mm x 25mm x 7mm<br />
Dating: late 14th century</span></td></tr>
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The previous post about the making of this reliquary can be found <a href="http://eligius-hammer.blogspot.com/2011/11/metropolitan-gothic-pendant.html">here</a>.</div>
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Maria brooch in silver is ready-to-wear. </div>
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I must admit that it turned out very nice. Unfotrunately I can't show on the photo how those small attached pendants move while wearing . But it makes the brooch hard not to spot.</div>
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Curious how it will catch an eye when it will be gold plated! </div>
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The brooch pin is more like the modern ones - much easier to put on then disk brooch types. </div>
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For more photos of the making of the brooch click <a href="http://eligius-hammer.blogspot.com/2011/12/m-for-maria-late-14th-cent-brooch-from.html">here</a></div>
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I looked for some New Year gifts for you this time.The custom of giving such gifts has a long tradition and it was common during the Late Middle Ages among the higher class.</div>
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In France such presents were known as <i>étrenneus.</i> They where given to lords, family, friends and even to household staff. Often those gifts were jewellery as rings, brooches, pendants, or specially made badges ( also made of silver ). </div>
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Jewels are costy and such expense are known through account books, bills and other written sources telling us a lot aboute this medieval custom.</div>
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In 1384 the royal goldsmith Jehan du Vivier was paid to make a hundred and six small silver-gilt badges and they were supposed to be given to the knights and squires of Charles IV as a New Year's Day gift.</div>
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In 1448 King Rene of Anjou gave hundred and eight badges of fine silver to the lesser members of his household and twelve gold ones to his knights.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Golden ring from Verversdijk (Belgium) <br />
with engraved EN BON AN inscription and floral motive, 15th cent.</td></tr>
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From the account of gifts given in 1373 by John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancater we know that he bought jewelry from several London goldsmiths:<i> </i><br />
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divers silver-gilt hannaps and divers gold beads [paternosters] and
gold brooches and rings and phials and other jewels bought from them for
us and given away on New Year's Day at Eltham last year'</i>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Silver ring with traces of gold gilt found in Hampshire ( England)<br />
with engraved words EN BON AN words separated by floral motives and crosses, 15th cent </td></tr>
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For the New Year's Day in 1392 Valentina Visconti, Duches of Orleans, bought a whole list of jewels from the Paris goldsmith and precious stones seller Jehan Tarenne:<br />
"<i>a fine large square diamond for her brother-in-law the King, followed by rings set with a sapphire or other precious stones or pearls for such humble but important persons as nurses to Princess Isabelle and Princess Jeanne, the Kings daugthers, or the Queen's femme de chambre, washer-woman and workman."</i><br />
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with engraved words EN BON ANNE separated by floral ornaments, 15th cent </td></tr>
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and the last but definitely not the least New Year's gift find:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Golden ring found in Kent (England)<br />
with a figure of John the Evangelist on the top and the engraved words EN BON AN on a twisted band, 15th cent. </td></tr>
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"A Medieval finger-ring, iconographic in type, engraved at its centre with the image of a standing saint, possibly St John the Evangelist, holding a chalice in his left hand and blessing it with his right. The ring is a highly original construction of geometric planes, creating an exaggerated point at the shoulder. Each plane is engraved with a sunburst and sprigs of foliage. The back of the hoop is cabled and carries an inscription punctuated by engraved flowers. The inscription is contrary to the orientation of the image and reads:<br />
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This French inscription, wishing a good year, appears on a large number of medieval rings which are considered to have been New Year's gifts."</div>
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Lightbown, R. W.: <i>Mediaeval European Jewelry</i> . London 1992, p.71-72, 198</div>
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Something a bit more secular this time - a luxury object of personal devotion.</div>
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In 1870 during some construction works at Pritzwalk (Germany) the large number of late medieval silver items had been discovered. </div>
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After the examination the researchers came to a conclusion that this treasure was probably hidden in 1392. It consisted 426 jewellery items and a number of jewellery fragments. </div>
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Unfortunately the treasure was moved from Pritzwalk to Berlin Decorative Art Museum and some of the items has been destroyed ( also including a beautiful wearable pendant altar with three kings visiting Christ) during the II World War bombing.</div>
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Hundreds of beautiful items survived, though and it was really hard to decide what to make first! </div>
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After hours of studying the catalogue- that was my pick.</div>
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The<b> </b>silver brooch in a shape of crowned letter <i>M</i>.</div>
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Letter M stands for <i>Maria</i> -Mother of Christ. </div>
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The background of the letter is engraved with six four petal flowers and letters <i>A</i> and <i>V</i>- which stands for <i>AVE</i>.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">There is also an additional element, a small leave-shaped pendant suspended with a silver wire eye soldered at the back. In the centre of the pendent the is an eye soldered with a silver foil hanging ornament ( very similar to the one from Erfurt Treasure hooks-and-eyes I made </span>- <a href="http://eligius-hammer.blogspot.com/2011/11/hooks-and-eyes-from-erfurt.html" target="_blank">you can see it here</a> )</div>
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At the revers the hinged pin with a closing hook is still preserved. <br />
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The original brooch from Pritzwalk Treasure, now in Kunsgewerbetmuseum Collection in Berlin<br />
Material: Silver, gold gilt, enamel<br />
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Krabath, Stefan; Lambacher, Lothar: <i>Der Pritzwalker Silberfund. Smuck des sp</i><i>ä</i><i>ten Mitelalters</i>, Pritzwalk 2006</div>Ninahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16792585844225090263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573926823886585695.post-53723316003938489992011-12-10T13:22:00.000+01:002011-12-10T13:39:39.711+01:00Silver crowned spoon<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">
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Getting ready for a royal feast. Silver spoon found in Sweden. This is one of seven similar spoons found in a large silver treasure discovered in <span class="notranslate">Sollentuna and now in the collection of the Historiska Museet.
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I just finished the wax few days ago. The final shape of the spoon will me made after it will be casted in metal - i will hammer it to make it deeper. Afterwards the ornaments will be engraved and partly plated with gold.</div>
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The picture of the spoons together with all the treasure elements.<br />
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Finally the original spoon front and back view. Note the beautiful engraved and plated ribbon under the handle.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The original spoon from the Historiska Museet. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Dimension: length 122 mm </span></div>
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Today a short break from making reliquaries. Today there is going to be something about fashion - clothes fasteners from a 14th century treasure from Germany.</div>
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It was made using a brass blowpipe not a modern gas burner - something I learned from a goldsmith in India during the last trip ( Yes, there will be a post about it soon).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Copy of the leave hook and eye from the Erfurt Treasure<br />
Material: silver<br />
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The photo of the original two pairs of fasteners.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The original fasteners from the Erfurt Treasure<br />
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At the photo above, the ears in the front side are preserved only on one of the leaves and were used for adding some small metal hanging pendants. Unfortunately it seems that they easily getting lost - but another element from the same treasure still have them preserved. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The belt stud from the Erfurt Treasure with a metal pendant </td></tr>
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Few of the belt-studs still have those pendants attached, so I decided to reconstruct a similar heart-shaped ones for my fasteners.<br />
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There are many more very interesting hooks-and eyes from Erfurt and they will be available to <a href="mailto:nina.rucinska@gmail.com">order</a> soon.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Silver floral fasteners from Erfurt Treasure</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Silver fleur-de-lis fastener form Erfurt Treasure</td></tr>
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Mecking, Oliver (el al.): Der Schatzfund - Analysen - Herstellungstechniken - Rekonstruktionen. Die Mittelalterliche Judische Kultur in Erfurt, Bd. 2.Weimar 2010. <br />
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</div>Ninahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16792585844225090263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573926823886585695.post-88706665114376860222011-11-30T16:19:00.000+01:002011-11-30T22:24:36.263+01:00Metropolitan gothic pendantAnother example of wearable reliquary. The construction is very similar to the <a href="http://eligius-hammer.blogspot.com/2011/11/slide-up-ihc-reliquary.html">IHC reliquary</a> I already made.<br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I assume this was also open-able, slide up one </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">although</span><span lang="EN-US"> I did not find information about it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The front panel with a architectural motive of gothic windows was made with a cast. The back panel engraved with a hunting motive - rabbit being chased by three hounds. </span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The original pendant from the Metropolitan Museum in New York<br />
Material: silver, gold gilt<br />
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</div>Ninahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16792585844225090263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573926823886585695.post-34365854710658295482011-11-28T20:06:00.000+01:002011-11-29T07:51:11.609+01:00Reliquary pendant with St. George<span style="color: #444444;">It has been few months already I am in to finding a making medieval wearable jewellery reliquaries.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;">This one with a <strong>Saint George killing the dragon </strong>was made for a commission order. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">It is a tiny piece made in gold plated silver with a rock crystal window - so the stored a precious item always would be visible.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;">Copy of the 15th cent pendant</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>Material:</strong> 925 Silver (gold plated), rock crystal</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">The original piece is from<strong> </strong>the <strong>British Museum </strong>and t</span><span style="color: #444444;">he catalouge description says:<strong> "</strong>Gold reliquary pendant of rectangular shape, engraved with a standing figure of St. George killing the dragon within an arch on one side; on the other is a piece of crystal behind which it is likely that a piece of textile was shown."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;">The original pendant from British Museum</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>Material:</strong> gold, rock crystal</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dimensions:</strong> 16mm x 14mm</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">You can wear in on a chain, but there is also one nice example from 15th century of a very similar looking item on a black bead ( jet beads?) necklace.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;">Detail from “Salmon Is questioned by the King”. Pierre Salmon, Dialoges; </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;">Geneva, BGE, MS fr.165, fol.7; Paris, ca.1414. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;">After van Buren 2011, p. 131, F82.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #444444;">Bibliography </span></strong><br />
<span style="color: #444444;">van Buren, Anna H.: <em>Illuminating fashion. Dress in Art of Medieval France and the Netherlands, 1325-1515. </em>New York & London 2011, p. 131, F82.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span>Ninahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16792585844225090263noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573926823886585695.post-49221150679584912182011-11-27T20:25:00.001+01:002011-11-28T22:02:27.223+01:00Round reliquaryThis one I made after a detector find from England ( North Yorkshire, Hambleton).<br />
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After placing the relicts inside, the top piece - lid will be sealed by hammering the rim of the bottom part.<br />
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The are letters envgraved on both sides: <em>A/M / IHC</em> [<em>Ave Maria / Jesus Christus</em>] <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Copy of the pendant<br />
<strong>Material</strong>: gold plated silver<br />
<strong>Dimensions</strong>: diameter 19mm<br />
<strong>Dating:</strong> 14-15th century</td></tr>
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And the photo of the original find:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The original reliquary<br />
<strong>Material</strong>: silver gilt<br />
<strong>Dimentions</strong>: diameter 19mm<br />
<strong>Dating:</strong> 14/15th century</td></tr>
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<strong>Bibliography</strong><br />
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<strong><a href="http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/211257">http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/211257</a></strong><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"></span></span>Ninahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16792585844225090263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573926823886585695.post-63597220876350549202011-11-26T22:17:00.000+01:002011-11-28T22:06:24.253+01:00Leonardi from Cremone pendant reliquaryThis was the very first reliquary I made and I still think that it is the one I like the most.<br />
It was probably manufactered in Italy.<br />
The inscription +RELIQU / IA . SA[NCT]I . LE' / 'ONARDI . * / CREMONE*' ['Relic of St. Leonard from Cremona' Inscribed in Latin]<br />
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The relicts are stored in a drawer like construction. The inside part slided thou the ingraved one and it is secured by a rivet to keep the precious conted safe.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Copy of the reliquary pendant<br />
Material: 925 silver<br />
Dating: ca 1350</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The riginal pendant from Victoria and Albert Museum in London - Avers<br />
<span class="fbPhotoCaptionText">Material: silver, gold, enamel </span><br />
<span class="fbPhotoCaptionText">Dimensions: 52 mm x 10 mm x 6 mm</span><br />
<span class="fbPhotoCaptionText"><span class="fbPhotoCaptionText">Dating: ca 1350</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The original pendant from Victoria and Albert Museum in London - Revers</td></tr>
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<a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O18987/pendant/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3b5998;">http://<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span></span>collections.vam.ac.uk/item/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>O18987/pendant/</a>Ninahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16792585844225090263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573926823886585695.post-8505376819400739012011-11-26T21:29:00.000+01:002011-11-28T22:04:54.919+01:00IHC reliquary pendantThis one is from Scotland.<br />
Simple silver constructed reliquary. The lid can be lift up to reveal relict stored inside.<br />
Avers is engraved with letters <em>IHC </em>on a cross-hatched backgroud and revers with floral desing pattern.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Copy of the reliquary<br />
<strong>Material:</strong> 925 silver<br />
<strong>Dating</strong>: 15th cent</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The original from the Museum of Scotland<br />
<strong>Material:</strong> silver<br />
<strong>Dimensions:</strong> 35mm (with loop) x 18mm x 5mm<br />
<strong>Dating</strong>: 15th cent<br />
After Glenn 2003, p.86, F4.</td></tr>
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Glenn, Virginia: <em>Romanesque and Gothic. Decorative metal work and ivory carvings in the Museum of Scotland.</em> Edingburgh 2003.Ninahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16792585844225090263noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1573926823886585695.post-82633955535974834972011-11-24T22:39:00.000+01:002011-11-28T22:06:09.324+01:00Little cosmetic tool from V&AClean your ears with a style!<br />
Ear cleaner and a nail pearer from 14-15th century. <br />
A knive-shape nail cleaner with a file surface one the top and <em>IHC</em> engraving- on one side and a twisted handle with a earspoon on the other.<br />
Small enouth to keep in a purse.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotoCaptionText">Copy of the ear pick and a nail cleaner with a file from the Victoria and Albert Museum<br /><strong>Material: </strong> 925 Silver</span><br />
<span class="fbPhotoCaptionText"><strong>Dating:</strong> 15th century</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotoCaptionText"><span class="fbPhotoCaptionText">Original ear pick and a nail cleaner with a file from he Victoria and Albert Museum</span></span><br />
<span class="fbPhotoCaptionText"><strong>Materials: </strong> Silver </span><br />
<span class="fbPhotoCaptionText"><strong>Dimensions:</strong> 6 mm x 78 mm x 5 mm</span><br />
<span class="fbPhotoCaptionText"><strong>Dating: </strong> 15th century</span></td></tr>
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