Shakespeare in 100 Objects: Elizabethan Gold Angel
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An Elizabethan gold Angel - a coin thought to have sacred, healing power. Now held in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust's Collections.
Peter Hewitt Shakespeare in 100 ObjectsAn Elizabethan gold Angel - a coin thought to have sacred, healing power. Now held in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust's Collections.
Peter Hewitt Shakespeare in 100 ObjectsTake a look at this 16th century purse or 'sweet bag'
Stephanie Appleton Shakespeare in 100 ObjectsIf Shakespeare did have a preferred place in which to keep his writings, it was most likely a desk box, like this one held by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust collection.
Elizabeth Sharrett Shakespeare in 100 ObjectsThis blog's object in focus is a wall mounted glass cupboard or glass-keep. It was used to store, protect, and display expensive and impressive pieces of glassware.
Peter Hewitt Shakespeare in 100 ObjectsEven fairly modest houses during Shakespeare’s lifetime were decorated with colourful imagery depicted in hangings or painted directly onto the wall surface, such as this tapestry woven with hunting scenes.
Tara Hamling Shakespeare in 100 ObjectsThe Shakespeare Birthplace Trust holds in its collections a decorated leather and velvet side-saddle made sometime in the 1550s.
Victoria Jackson Shakespeare in 100 ObjectsA warm bed necessitated the use of a warming pan like the one discussed in this post , a seventeenth-century example in the collection of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
Stephanie Appleton Shakespeare in 100 ObjectsBed-staffs were slender turned pegs which were used to secure the bedlinen on large bedsteads to prevent it from spilling onto the floor.
Elizabeth Sharrett Shakespeare in 100 ObjectsTake a closer look at this beautiful medicine chest, held in the collections at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Peter Hewitt Shakespeare in 100 ObjectsShakespeare makes reference to the act of dressing several times in his plays and this blog discusses a well known item of clothing from the period: the bodice.
Stephanie Appleton Shakespeare in 100 Objects