- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, plaster figure of the Virgin Mary, with traces of gilding and red and green paint. [El.B 11/07/2012]
- 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 Plaster, Material Gilt Metal, Material Pigment, Process Gilded, Process Painted, Process Moulded
- Dimensions
- Width: max 13 mm, Length: max 54 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.52.2196 Other numbers: 4376
Search terms: Religion, Figure, Amulet, Religious Object
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