Heart-shaped brooch
England or France, about 1400
Gold, formerly enamelled
V&A: 86-1899

During the medieval period the two main themes in jewellery were religion and love. The heart shape and inscription show that this ring brooch was a love token.




Brooch from the Fishpool Hoard
Possibly the Southern Netherlands, about 1450
Gold and enamel
© Copyright the Trustees of The British Museum, London

The heart-shaped brooch pictured here shows how the V&A brooch may have looked with its original enamel decoration. It is inscribed on the back in French ‘I am wholly yours’.

The brooch is part of a hoard of 15th-century jewellery found at Fishpool, near Mansfield in Nottinghamshire. These jewels were either imported from the mainland Europe or made in England.

Несколько восхитительных золотых вещиц из Британского музея, броши и кольца, по порядку загрузки:
c.1420-50 Burgundy
c.1420-50 France
c.1420-50 Burgundy (2 ракурса)
c.1330-1470 Chalcis, Greece
medieval, found in Gedney, Lincolnshire
c.1351-99 England