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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

Inscriptions

Inscription content

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

Inscription content

I Stephanoff, 1839.

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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.