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Jewellery/Accessories: SP0007

Title

William Shakespeare

Technique

Metalwork

Subject

Artist

Dimensions

Height: 6.1cm
Width: 2.4cm
Depth: 1.3cm

Other materials

Brass tobacco tamper

Inscription/signature

["Brass Shakespeare / Stamp" (accompanying note)]

Provenance

The M.H. Spielmann Collection; given to the Garrick Club by Lincoln Kirstein, 1983

Other number

Gift 906

Related works

See SP0008

Literature

Ashton (with the help of Gertrud Seidmann), "The M H Spielmann Collection of Shakespeare Portraits." c.1982. Unpublished manuscript in the Garrick Club Library, Garrick Club Box 4, No.7

A cast brass tobacco tamper showing a bust of Shakespeare in profile looking to left. It's sophiticated detailing is rather worn and there are traces of vigorous filing on the flat reverse.
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