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Jewellery/Accessories: SP0012
Title
William Shakespeare
Technique
Metalwork
Subject
Artist
Dimensions
Height: 3.5cm
Width: 3.5cm
Depth: 1cm
Width: 3.5cm
Depth: 1cm
Other materials
Gold coloured metal brooch
Inscription/signature
["Coat-brooch / Sh - bust on a / cross" (accompanying note)]
Provenance
The M.H. Spielmann Collection; given to the Garrick Club by Lincoln Kirstein, 1983
Other number
Gift 906
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 Unpublished manuscript in the Garrick Club Library, Garrick Club Box 4, No.12
A coat-broach showing a three-quarter profile of Shakespeare looking to the right, mounted on a Maltese cross. Both the bust and the cross are stamped and they are attached together by two small arms on the verso. The detailing of the bust is good.
