Affabel Partridge: The Poor Clare's Reliquary

Dates: 6.8.2008 to 13.7.2009. This display tells the story of a precious vessel that has recently been lent to the V&A by the Monastery of Poor Clares in Hereford. Scholars are divided over whether it was made as a reliquary or a salt cellar. The marks on the vessel tell us that it was made in London in 1551, probably by the Royal Goldsmith Affabel Partridge, at a time when Catholics in England were being persecuted.

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