- Date
- 1960 – 1975
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 103.01.0183 a,b
- Description
- Two large, handmade, silver brooches. (a) rectangular, flat, plate of silver with etched, leggy flower at middle. Flower coloured by niello, with small, silver, round dots at centre. Hinged pin spike across back fastens into locking barrel bolt clasp. (b) abstract, leggy, flower shape of cast silve…
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- Title
- Brooch
- Date
- 1960 – 1975
- Material
- metal
- Dimensions
- 3.3 x 0.6 x 4.3 cm
- Description
- Two large, handmade, silver brooches. (a) rectangular, flat, plate of silver with etched, leggy flower at middle. Flower coloured by niello, with small, silver, round dots at centre. Hinged pin spike across back fastens into locking barrel bolt clasp. (b) abstract, leggy, flower shape of cast silver. Small, 4 mm dia. gold ball sits on flat arm spoke extending horizontally to the left, with two tiny silver knobs beside it. Centre of pin consists of a round, globby mass of small silver balls clustered together.
- Subject
- Whyte home
- houeholds
- adornment
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.01.0183 a,b
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