Buckle or Brooch? Need Help

[jihunter]

Found this on the Charleston, SC pennisula this week. It was in bad shape when I pulled it out. Was roughly 3ft down and also found tons of old pottery, china, black glass bottles, and 2 1798 1 cent coins. I have been working on cleaning it up the past few days and can now make out the emblems on it. The detail is amazing. It is copper from what I can tell, it has a chalice in the middle with two horses heads on each side of the glass facing oppasitte each other. THere is also a conifer tree above the middle of the chalice. The edges of the object have a very detailed pattern engraved.

It seems thin to be a buckle, and has a rivet hole on each side. I feel like with it having a chalivce and the conifer tree on it it may have some religous meaning. I donthave to go into how old it could or could not be being that I found it in Chas, SC. Pre-Colonial?Colonial, Revolutionary, Pre Civil War? Help Please!
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[dig kzoo]

Could have been the front plate to a buckle, and looks a bit big for a brooch. Just my take on it. cool find.

 

[jihunter]

Any ideas on time period

 

[Shortynego]

Looks like one of those tin emblems from a fancy bottle

 

[CASPER-2]

looks like a funeral / mourning urn to me
Symbolism Sunday, The Urn | Art of Mourning

 

[Gemini Alpha]

Hi Jihunter, it looks like it was the Front Plate of something. Time period, maybe sometime around the 1800s. Could really be the Front Plate of an Urn like Casper suggested. bye GA

 

[creskol]

Found this on the Charleston, SC pennisula this week. It was in bad shape when I pulled it out. Was roughly 3ft down and also found tons of old pottery, china, black glass bottles, and 2 1798 1 cent coins. I have been working on cleaning it up the past few days and can now make out the emblems on it. The detail is amazing. It is copper from what I can tell, it has a chalice in the middle with two horses heads on each side of the glass facing oppasitte each other. THere is also a conifer tree above the middle of the chalice. The edges of the object have a very detailed pattern engraved.

It seems thin to be a buckle, and has a rivet hole on each side. I feel like with it having a chalivce and the conifer tree on it it may have some religous meaning. I donthave to go into how old it could or could not be being that I found it in Chas, SC. Pre-Colonial?Colonial, Revolutionary, Pre Civil War? Help Please!
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I think it is a drawer pull backing plate off of a Queen Annes style piece of furniture. The pull itself was mounted on a stud that went through the square hole. Here are a few pics for you to ponder:

 

[jewelerguy]

I agree with creskol

 

[jihunter]

It does look similar, but there is no hole in the top of it, the two holes are on each side? What may look like a hole in the top of it is actually a tear in teh metal