Painted Scrolls
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Needle Case
Version without painted area (photograph from eBay)
Design Details
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Flat-Names |
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Dimensions: |
5.5 x 4.5 |
Material: |
Brass |
Name Variations: |
Baggallays, Westall & Spence - London |
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Without painted areas
With painted areas |
Additional Photographs
Back and inside open
Inside details
Front exterior detail
Facts
The scroll in art is an element of ornament and graphic design featuring spirals and rolling incomplete circle motifs, some of which resemble the edge-on view of a book or document in
scroll form, though many types are plant-scrolls, which loosely represent plant forms such as vines, with leaves or flowers attached. Scrollwork is a term for some forms of decoration
dominated by spiraling scrolls.
History
Continuous scroll decoration has a very long history, and such patterns were an essential element of classical and medieval decoration. The use of scrolls in ornament goes back to
at least the Bronze Age; geometric scroll ornament has been found in the Palace of Knossos at Minoan Crete dating to approximately 1800 BC, perhaps drawing from even earlier Egyptian
styles. Plant-based scrolls were very widely used in Greek and Roman architectural decoration, spreading from them to other types of objects. Examples of Classical Greek
scroll patterns are displayed here.
Misc.
Some people might think the needle case pictured here is enameled. The definition of enamel is a glassy substance, usually opaque, applied by fusion to the surface of metal, pottery,
etc., as an ornament or for protection. This needle case is not enameled, instead the color has been painted onto the brass. When this needle case was cleaned, some of the paint
was removed. Enameled items would not lose their color during cleaning. Below is an example of an enameled pin made in 2018 by W. O. Lewis Badges LTD. of Birmingham, UK.
