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Locket

Locket

  • Place of origin:

    England, Great Britain (made)

  • Date:

    1775-1800 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Unknown (production)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Engraved gold, ivory, watercolour

  • Museum number:

    922-1888

  • Gallery location:

    Jewellery, room 91 mezzanine, case 81, shelf D, box 4

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Memorial jewellery to honour the dead is one of the largest categories of 18th- century jewellery to survive.

From 1760 there was a new vogue for memorial medallions or lockets. These became especially popular in Britain, though similar work was produced throughout Europe.

The lockets could be bought ready made, and the designs were standardised. Neo-classical motifs of funerary urns, plinths and obelisks joined the more traditional cherubs, angels and weeping willows.

Physical description

Engraved gold frame enclosing ivory with watercolour miniature of a woman seated beneath a tree, a dog at her feet, pointing to a locket or plaque.

Place of Origin

England, Great Britain (made)

Date

1775-1800 (made)

Artist/maker

Unknown (production)

Materials and Techniques

Engraved gold, ivory, watercolour

Dimensions

Height: 3.5 cm, Width: 2.1 cm, Depth: 0.7 cm

Descriptive line

Engraved gold frame, ivory painted in watercolour, England, 1775-1800

Materials

Watercolour; Gold; Ivory

Subjects depicted

Trees; Women; Dogs (animals); Miniatures (paintings)

Categories

Metalwork; Jewellery

Collection code

MET

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