IDENTIFIERS
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id:	119034
accession number:	M.73 & A-1930

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 17 July 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Branched red coral, carved in relief in the form of a winged figure of the Archangel Michael, who wears a plumed helmet, tunic, breastplate(?), billowing cloak and long, sandle-like boots. He holds an orb and cross in his left hand and a sword aloft in his right as he stands upon the legs of the vanquished Devil, who lies curved beneath his feet. The faun-like Devil has a horned head and goat's legs and hooves. His right hand points upwards towards the angel's right leg. His left hand rests on, or holds, below his head, the body of a curved snake that extends from behind the Devil’s left arm; its dog-like head in profile below the Devil’s own.  

On the back, inset into the coral in two places, are two damaged gold-alloy mounts (a hinge-plate, above, and a catch-plate, below; both broken and incomplete) for a vertical hinged brooch-pin, now missing. The hinge-plate has remnants of silver-copper alloy on top, probably silver solder. In separate case (A).
title:	brooch

NOTES
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type: history note
value: For possible earlier provenance, see Free field (public) ; Frank Smart Collection; T.J.G. Duncanson, MA, Emmanuel College, Cambridge


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Given by T.J.G. Duncanson

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/119034





CATEGORIES
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category: jewellery

DATING
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creation date:	1600 - 1800
creation date earliest:	1600
creation date latest:	1800
culture:	17th Century-18th Century#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 13.5



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Spellbound: Thinking Magically, Past and Present
title:	Coral: Something Rich and Strange
CITATIONS
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Classical gems: ancient and modern intaglios and cameos in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Catalogue of the Somerville Collection
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