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Highlights of the Waterford Treasures exhibition - Medieval gallery
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Highlights of the Waterford Treasures exhibition - Granary exterior
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Viking Age kite brooch - ‘finest piece of 12th century secular metalwork in Ireland’, gold filigree on a silver base, produced in Waterford about AD 1100
Viking Age gaming board & pieces, scabbard, jeweller’s tools etc
12th century yew bowstave – only complete medieval bow in Britain or Ireland – and other archery material from the siege of Waterford by the Anglo-Normans in AD 1170
13th century French, German, Belgian, English wine jugs, elegant evidence of trade
Gold ring brooch, |
mid-13th century - earliest of its type in Europe, thought never to have been worn as it was recovered in pristine condition
Ireland’s finest complete set of royal charters (1215-1815) granted to Waterford
Great Charter Roll, AD 1372 – 4-metre long illustrated roll, featuring the earliest picture of an Irish city, governors of Ireland & medieval mayors, stunning depictions of five medieval kings of England and a compilation of royal charters. Unique in the British Isles.
Ceremonial sword given by King Edward IV to the Mayor of Waterford, 1462.
‘Magi’ Cope and Dalmatic – late 15th century Florentine woven cloth of gold c1480, the figurative panels Flemish embroidery. From the only complete set of pre-Reformation vestments to survive in Britain or Ireland, belonged to Waterford’s Christ Church cathedral.
Cap of Maintenance and accompanying bearing sword given by King Henry VIII of England to the Mayor of Waterford in 1536. Oldest such cap in Europe & recently found to be the only piece of the king’s wardrobe to survive
Finest display outside Dublin of 17th/18th century provincial Irish silverware.
Ireland’s finest public collection of 18th & 19th century Waterford glass.
Display on the Bonaparte Wyse family, an ancient Waterford Catholic family who married into the Bonaparte family in 1820, including 7 family portraits, an exquisite jet cross set in gold, one of 12 commissioned on the death of Emperor Napoleon, locks of hair of Napoleon and of Madame Mère.
Uniform & regalia of Thomas Francis Meagher, Irish rebel & hero of the American Civil War. Meagher brought the tricolour from Paris to Ireland in 1848.
Waterford Treasures, A guide to the historical and archaeological treasures of Waterford City
Edited by Eamonn McEneaney (Director) with Rosemary Ryan (Education Officer)
- lavishly illustrated in full colour,
Published by Waterford Museum of Treasures, 2004, ISBN 0-9547335-0-9,
h/b, 224 pp, 289 x 289 mm
RRP €30.00 - terreireland.com special offer (quote when ordering): post free to Europe!
The Issue of Bonaparte Wyse, Waterford’s Imperial Relations
by Olga Bonaparte Wyse, introduction by Eamonn McEneaney, illustrated,
Published by Waterford Museum of Treasures, 2004, limited edition 1000 copies, ISBN 0-9547335-1-7, h/b, 218 pp, 242 x 162 mm
RRP €20.00 - terreireland.com special offer (quote when ordering): post free to Europe! |
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