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Dress Handpin, 6th century
Summary[edit]
Irish Dress Handpin
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| Photographer |
Eamonn O'Mahony, The Hunt Museum |
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| Title |
Irish Dress Handpin |
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| Description |
This type of dress pin is known as a handpin, its head resembles the palm of the hand with fingers bent forward. Like the zoomorphic penannular brooches, this form of small dress pin originated in late Roman Britain and was later developed by Irish craftsmen. The earliest handpins are silver and are of relatively modest size. Examples in copper alloy, with elaborately decorated heads and exceptionally long pins, are regarded as being typologically late in the series and were made in Ireland into the sixth century. Most developed handpins have five 'fingers' rather than three as here. In this example the head is a semicircular plate with a circular perforation. It is capped by three projecting fingers and is fixed to a right-angled projection at the top of the shank. The head is decorated with a pattern of reserved metal against a background of red enamel. The design consists of a pari of inward-curving 'dodo' heads springing from a central inverted U-shape. |
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| Date | 6th century | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Enamelled Copper Alloy | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Length 16.75 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection |
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| Current location |
Collections and Exhibitions |
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| Accession number |
HCA 533 |
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| Object history | Found in Askeaton, Co.Limerick, Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes | File of material relating to a bronze hand pin. Includes photocopy of object description sheet (date unspecified); photocopy of photograph of object (date unspecified); photocopy of sketch of object (date unspecified); letter (3 July 1996) from Fiona Duignan (address withheld), to Director, Hunt Museum. She is preparing a survey and catalogue of hand-pins for publication. Requests information on a hand-pin and ibex-headed pin which John Hunt, Senior, had in his collection. In relation to the hand-pin, states that it may be from Askeaton, county Limerick, and that it is possibly that published by J.G. Hewson, in the ‘Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland’ (Dublin, 1884). Photocopy of extract from this publication is present. Copy of reply (16 July 1996) from Michael Holland, Registrar, Hunt Museum, states that the ibex-headed pin to which she refers may be HCA 532 and the hand-pin provenanced to Askeaton is the present object; reply (23 July 1996) from Duignan to Holland. Confirms that present object is the same she saw in Hunts house; photocopy of notes (date unspecified) by Duignan which describe the hand pin; photocopy of extract from publication entitled ‘The Hunt Museum Essential Guide’ (Scala Publishers in association with the Hunt Museum, 2002) edited by Helen Armitage which comprises image and description of object; photocopy of extract from publication entitled ‘Treasures of Ireland: Irish Art 3000 B.C.-1500 A.D. (Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, c. 1983) edited by Michael Ryan, which describes a similar hand pin. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Source | Hunt Museum | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
Public Domain via Hunt Museum | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Other versions | File:HCA_533_Detail.jpg | ||||||||||||||||||||
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