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Cherub
These two items would have been mounted on an object of gilt or of a mixrure of gilt and silver. They are similar to
the cherubs on the 'candelabra' and may belong to a group of similar sort of material. Note that the attachment method and the confirmation that these objects were attached to a larger object can be seen by the rivet in BA T 3568.
BA T 3603 (SCALE 1:1)
BA T 3568 (SCALE 1:1)
A silver-gilt cherub playing a flute (1) in the right hand and holding a horn in the left.
Claw
IlA T 3599
Thisisabird'sclawgrasp- ing a ball. It would have been part of the base of some orna- mental object.
This is a particularly badly-cor- roded object. It seems that it origi- nally had a flower-like base with two symmetrical arms (one now miss- ing) that framed an oval object of some sort. Similar sorts of stands were used to mount Pearly Nautilis shells (N. pompi/ius).
Figure 65.
Silver·gilt cherub B A T 3603.
Unidentified object BAT 3744
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