Plaid brooch

Description

Ring-style plaid brooch, plain ring with four cast and chased thistles between wire decoration supporting a facetted crystal, said to have been presented to John Ban MacKenzie by Queen Victoria, 1854

Museum reference

K.2000.57

Collection

Culture

Object name

Plaid brooch

Date

c. 1854

Materials

Wire, Crystal

Physical description

Wire decoration; ring-style; facetted crystal; foiled; engraved; chased

Associations

Recipient: Mackenzie, John Ban, 1796 - 1864
Presenter: Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Empress of India
Loch Tay, Perthshire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Exhibitions

• Wild and Majestic Romantic Visions of Scotland (28 Jun 2019 - 10 Nov 2019)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Fonn's Duthchas: Land and Legacy (13 Jan 2007 - 01 Dec 2007)
  Highland Museums, Inverness Museum and Art Gallery
  Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery
  National Museums of Scotland
  Museum nan Eilean

• Silver: Made in Scotland (25 Jan 2008 - 27 Apr 2008)
  National Museum of Scotland