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Drawings Anglo-Saxon enamelled brooch from London

Object number

LDSAL2020.34.17

Artist/Designer/Maker

Stephanoff, I - Artist

Production date

1839

Material

paper
watercolour

Technique

Drawing
Painting (Image-Making)

Dimensions

Height: 118mm
Width: 126mm
Height (of Mount): 184mm
Width (of Mount): 190mm

Associated place

British Museum
City of London
London
Greater London
England
United Kingdom
Europe

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Ancient Enamelled Ouche in Gold.
Vide Archaeol. Vol. XXIX. p. 70.

Inscription content

I Stephanoff, 1839.

Inscription content

Dowgate Hill

References

Reference (free text)

Charles Roach Smith, 'A Letter Addressed...to John Gage Rokewode, Director, on an Ancient Enamelled Ouche, in Gold' Archaeologia 29 (1842): 70-5. Illustration (Engraving (handcoloured and heightened in gold?) by James Basire), pl. X, opp. p. 70.

Reference (free text)

Ronald Jessup, Anglo-Saxon Jewellery (London: Faber and Faber, 1950), pp. 125-6. Illustration, fig. 1, pl. XXXII. Jessup argues for a Germanic or English origin, made in the tradition of the Byzantine schools. Thought to be late Anglo-Saxon - 10th-century.