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Our Lady's Shrine - pilgrim badge
- Date
- 15th century
- Reference
- R407684
- Description
Openwork badge depicting a Madonna seated and holding a child with a tree beside the figures, set within an architectural frame surmounted by three crosses.
Pilgrim badges were a mass-produced commodity created by means of a stamping process. They were worn in the later medieval period by Roman Catholic pilgrims. Typically made of lead alloy, they were sold as souvenirs at sites of Christian pilgrimage and bear imagery relating to the saint venerated there.
Quantity: 1 curio(s).
Physical Description: Pewter, 41 x 33 mm.
Provenance: These badges were previously in the possession of the Dutch collector and amateur archaeologist Joop Weij; purchased by Den of Antiquity from him in 2011.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 curio(s), Badges, Curios, Pewter, 41 x 33 mm.
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