A brass alms dish by Mary Gilmour, of circular design the well stamped in relief with a stylised Celtic roundel, the rim with a band of entrelacs and circles enclosing foil-backed enamel panels in mottled blue, green and purple, stamped monogram MG -- 22½in. diam.See illustration
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A brass alms dish by Mary Gilmour, of circular design the well stamped in relief with a stylised Celtic roundel, the rim with a band of entrelacs and circles enclosing foil-backed enamel panels in mottled blue, green and purple, stamped monogram MG -- 22½in. diam.See illustration
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For a similar example, exhibited at the Glasgow International exhibition of 1901, see Jude Burkhauser (ed.), Glasgow Girls (Edinburgh 1990), p.166