- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Charm against Evil Eye in the shape of a figure. Gold, bent into a cone with repoussé detail. Worn in a child's cap. [SM 04/05/2011]
- Geographical reference
- 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 Gold Metal, Material Metal Wire, Material Copper Alloy Metal, Process Bent, Process Repoussé
- Dimensions
- Width: max 24 mm, Length: max 42 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.51.752 Other numbers: A 132580 R 12395/ 1936 OP AM CHIN
- Associated publications
- Illustrated in colour in the pamphlet accompanying the Reading Room displays at the Welcome Collection with the caption “Figure Gold with repousse detail China RRa0192/1985.51.752 Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. This gold figure was worn in a child’s cap to protect against the evil eye.” [FB 15/8/2016]
1985.51.752
Charm against Evil Eye in the shape of a figure. Gold, bent into a cone with repoussé detail. Worn in a child's cap. [SM 04/05/2011]
1985.51.752
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