Frankish / Filigree Quatrefoil Brooch / Second half 7th-early 8th c.

Frankish
Filigree Quatrefoil Brooch
Second half 7th-early 8th c.
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Creator Nationality: European; Frankish
Creator Name-CRT: Frankish
Title: Filigree Quatrefoil Brooch
View: Principal view
Creation Start Date: 650
Creation End Date: 733
Creation Date: Second half 7th-early 8th c.
Object Type: Costume and Jewelry
Materials and Techniques: Top plate: gold-wrought sheet; repoussé; settings-garnet, glass (green, blue cabochon, beads), mother of pearl, moonstone; wire-spirally beaded (strip twisted), block twisted. Side: gold-wrought sheet; wire-block twisted. Base plate: copper alloy-cast.
Dimensions: L. 5.8 cm
AMICA Contributor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location: New York, New York, USA
ID Number: 17.193.90
Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Rights: http://www.metmuseum.org/education/er_photo_lib.asp
Provenance: Ex coll.: Friedrich Queckenberg, Niederbreisig, Germany; Joseph Queckenberg, Niederbreisig, Germany; J. Pierpont Morgan, New York
Context: From Niederbreisig (Rheinland Pfalz, Germany)
AMICA ID: MMA_.17.193.90
AMICA Library Year: 2001
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright (c) 2001 The Metropolitan Museum of Art. All Rights Reserved

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