Heart-shaped dress hook
Dress hooks were expensive items used in the elaborate clothing of wealthy women in Tudor England. This item is a silver-gilt hook in a tear-shape with heart-shaped decoration on the front and a scalloped edge.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 41/2014
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Gordon Phillips
- Material
- goldsilver
- Common Name
- heart-shaped dress hook
- Simple Name
- dress hook
- Period Classification
- Tudor (1500-1603)
