Badge of a weavers' guild
Also known as: Draagteken van een weversgilde
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1585 - 1600
Silver badge of a weavers' guild. The round plate shows a shuttle and two wool cards in the centre. A double chain is attached to the plate, from which a wool card and a shuttle hang. With inscriptions. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as BK-NM-8063; its record gives material recorded as gilding (material), silver (metal); technique gild; measurements length 21 cm x diameter 8 cm x length 9 cm. Description translated from the museum's Dutch catalogue text; details are those of this museum object, and how far it represents a wider type has not been independently verified.
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- gilding (material), silver (metal)
- Technique
- gild
- Measurements
- length 21 cm x diameter 8 cm x length 9 cm
- Dimensions museum
- length 21 cm x diameter 8 cm x length 9 cm
Identification
- Original title
- Draagteken van een weversgilde
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Museum object number
- BK-NM-8063
- Museum classification
- draagteken
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
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