Vessel escutcheon
Unknown Artist
- Art Funded
- 2003
- Dimensions
- 11.9 x 11.2 cm
- Vendor
- Mr P Wynne and Mr D Jacques
D-shaped plate integrally cast with a clasp-like collar and a suspension loop.
The plate is decorated with a design of two trumpet coils which curve around a pair of circular voids giving the impression of an anthropomorphic or zoomorphic face. The curvature of the plate suggests the escutcheon was mounted on a large globular vessel such as a cauldron.
Provenance
Found in 2002 by David Jacques while metal detecting in Shropshire near Wrexham on the Welsh border.