Mural Tablet
1892 (made)
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Mural tablet, enamel, composed of seventeen plaques mounted in a frame of gilt metal. On the central plaque is a long inscription. The border consists of monsters, masks, and floral arabesques in grisaille on a black ground. In the middle of each side is a circular plaque, two bearing the monogram P.H with a laurel wreath, and two decorated with a cupid holding a scroll with the word "PITTVRA".
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Brief description | Mural tablet, seventeen enamel plaques in a frame of gilt metal, by Alexander Fisher and Captain Victor N. Ward, England, 1892. |
Physical description | Mural tablet, enamel, composed of seventeen plaques mounted in a frame of gilt metal. On the central plaque is a long inscription. The border consists of monsters, masks, and floral arabesques in grisaille on a black ground. In the middle of each side is a circular plaque, two bearing the monogram P.H with a laurel wreath, and two decorated with a cupid holding a scroll with the word "PITTVRA". |
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Accession number | 661-1892 |
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Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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