Tudor Dress Hook. Object name tudor dress hook accession number 2006 43 category tudor site location northleach tags tudor silver. The diamond shape of the dress hook is consistent with that of read s early post medieval class d type 3 208 9 and dateable with the 16th century ad read 2008 p 65 66.
Tudor silver gilt dress hook a silver gilt hooked clothes fastener of read class d type 6 trefoil shaped with the body formed from three conjoined hemispheres. This silver gilt dress hook found at northleach is typical of the period and of the desire for conspicuous consumption while not falling foul of elizabethan sumptuary laws dress codes. Each hemisphere has filigree decoration and at the centre of these is decorative silver plate fastened by a dome headed split pin.
Each hemisphere has filigree decoration and at the centre of these is decorative silver plate fastened by a dome headed split pin.
This is a nice tudor silver gilt dress hook dating to the 16th century. Each hemisphere has filigree decoration and at the centre of these is decorative silver plate fastened by a dome headed split pin. Tudor silver gilt dress hook a silver gilt hooked clothes fastener of read class d type 6 trefoil shaped with the body formed from three conjoined hemispheres. This is a nice and intact tudor silver gilt dress hook dating to the 16th century.