Wooden and cork horseshoe, inlaid with broken ceramics in a mosaic. Hung up as an amulet against nightmares. [SM 15/06/2011]

Collection type: Object
Description: Wooden and cork horseshoe, inlaid with broken ceramics in a mosaic. Hung up as an amulet against nightmares. [SM 15/06/2011]
Long description: Wooden and cork horseshoe, inlaid with broken ceramics in a mosaic. Hung up as an amulet against nightmares. The horseshoe has a tied length of silk textile at the rounded end that is attached to the back of the horseshoe with a screwed in closed hook. The back of the horseshoe is wood and the front is mosaic, edged with slices of bottle corks, giving is a scalloped edge. [SM 21/01/2011]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England North London
Cultural groups: English
Person: Field collector Edward Lovett; PRM source Wellcome Institute; PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1933
Date collected: By 1933
Acquisition information: Transferred: 1985
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Pottery, Material Cork Plant, Material Silk Textile Animal, Material Pigment, Process Carved, Process Inlaid, Process Woven, Process Forged (Metal), Process Tied, Process Fire-Hardened
Dimensions: Width: max 190 mm, Length: max 195 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1985.51.157 Other numbers: R9396 R 10995/ 1936 J AM C

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