Silver crowned spoon from the Historiska Museet - next step

The next project is getting closer to its final look.

The spoon from Stockholm is already casted. I have made it in bronze (the final one will be silver).

It has been hammered to make it deeper and engraved.

The copy of the spoon from Historiska Museet with engravings.

The copy of the spoon from Historiska Museet.

Some more pictures before the enravings were made - but they shows nice the final shape after hammering.

   

   

The previous post about the making of the spoon can be found here.

M brooch finally finished

Maria brooch in silver is ready-to-wear.

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.

Curious how it will catch an eye when it will be gold plated! 

The brooch pin is more like the modern ones - much easier to put on then disk brooch types.

For pricing write an email to the address on a contact page.

For more photos of the making of the brooch click here

M for Maria - late 14th cent. brooch from Germany

Something a bit more secular this time - a luxury object of personal devotion.

In 1870 during some construction works at Pritzwalk (Germany) the large number of late medieval silver items had been discovered.

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.

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.

Hundreds of beautiful items survived, though and it was really hard to decide what to make first!

After hours of studying the catalogue- that was my pick.

The silver brooch in a shape of crowned letter M.

A wax model of a copy of the silver, late14th century brooch.

 

   

   

Letter M stands for Maria -Mother of Christ. 

The background of the letter is engraved with six four petal flowers and letters A and V- which stands for AVE.

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 - you can see it here )

All elements are enemelled.

At the revers the hinged pin with a closing hook is still preserved.

The original brooch from Pritzwalk Treasure, now in Kunsgewerbetmuseum Collection in Berlin
Material: Silver, gold gilt, enamel
Dimensions: 50mm ( with pendant) x 2,1mm

Bibliography

Krabath, Stefan; Lambacher, Lothar: Der Pritzwalker Silberfund. Smuck des späten Mitelalters, Pritzwalk 2006

Silver crowned spoon

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 Sollentuna and now in the collection of the Historiska Museet.

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.

Wax model of the silver spoon form the Historiska Museet.

     

     

Black and white version to give a better idea of how it will look in silver.

The picture of the spoons together with all the treasure elements.

Spoons photographed with the rest of the treasure: cups, belt elements, buttons, candleholder.

Finally the original spoon front and back view. Note the beautiful engraved and plated ribbon under the handle.

   
The original spoon from the Historiska Museet.
Material:    silver, gold plated
Dimension:    length 122 mm

Bibliography

http://www.historiska.se/data/?foremal=43421