Amulet, a textile arch shaped portable 'chapel' [.1], containing a painted ?plaster figure of the Virgin Mary, with a removable textile lid [.2]. [RB 10/04/2012]

Collection type: Object
Description: Amulet, a textile arch shaped portable 'chapel' [.1], containing a painted ?plaster figure of the Virgin Mary, with a removable textile lid [.2]. [RB 10/04/2012]
Long description: Amulet, a textile arch shaped portable 'chapel' [.1], containing a painted ?plaster figure of the Virgin Mary, with a removable textile lid [.2]. The portable 'chapel' is a pointed arch shape, and the two parts form a box. The exterior of both the 'chapel' and the lid are covered in a red coloured velvet textile, and the inside is lined with a silk brocade textile. Inside there is a painted ?plaster figure of the Virgin Mary, surrounded by corrugated pieces of paper with gilded edges. The figure is mounted behind a panel of glass. [RB 10/04/2012]
Geographical reference: France
Europe > Western Europe > France
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Wellcome Institute; PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1931
Date collected: By 1931
Acquisition information: Transferred: 1985
Materials and processes: Material Glass, Material Pigment, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Silk Textile Animal, Material Paper Plant, Material Velvet Textile, Material Plaster, Process Brocaded Woven, Process Stitched, Process Painted
Object numbers: Accession number: 1985.52.794 Other numbers: 1534