"Charmed Life: The solace of objects' is the result of the artist Felicity Powell’s engagement with a collection of 1400 amulets assembled by the Edwardian amateur folklorist Edward Lovett. One of the few people to have had access to this curious collection of ‘charms’, once carried in the pockets of Londoners for luck or protection, Powell was intrigued by the silent witness they bore to countless personal narratives, most of which are now lost to history. Despite being long divorced from their original owners, these objects, borowed from Oxford University's Pitt Rivers Museum, seemed to retain an insistent sense that they might yet hold some hidden magic."
http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/exhibitions/charmed-life.aspx
The exhibition was filled with beautiful small trinkets and these beautiful was painting which were on small black disks. we were able to watch a video on how they were cleverly made.
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