Large silver breast ornament of a triple chain of incised silver plates with smaller pendant plates, incised and ?painted with black patterns. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 26/9/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Large silver breast ornament of a triple chain of incised silver plates with smaller pendant plates, incised and ?painted with black patterns. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 26/9/2005]
Geographical reference: Morocco
Africa > Northern Africa > Morocco
Person: Field collector Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton; PRM source Antoinette Powell-Cotton
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1940
Date collected: 1930 or 1936?
Acquisition information: Donated: 1940
Materials and processes: Material Silver Metal, Material Pigment, Process Incised, Process Painted
Dimensions: Length: max 500 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1940.10.52 Other numbers: 151
Research and responses: Major Powell-Cotton mounted expeditions to Morocco in 1930 and 1936, and it seems likely that this object was acquired during one of these two trips [RTS 25/8/2004].

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