Detail View: The AMICA Library: Filigree Lobed Disk Brooch

AMICA ID: 
MMA_.17.192.92
AMICA Library Year: 
2001
Object Type: 
Costume and Jewelry
Creator Nationality: 
European; Frankish
Creator Name-CRT: 
Frankish
Title: 
Filigree Lobed Disk Brooch
View: 
Principal view
Creation Date: 
Second half 7th c.
Creation Start Date: 
650
Creation End Date: 
699
Materials and Techniques: 
Top plate: gold-wrought sheet; settings-glass (clear, green), mother of pearl; wire-spirally beaded (strip twisted), beaded. Base plate: copper alloy-cast. Pin: iron. Rivets: copper alloy.
Dimensions: 
D. 3 cm
AMICA Contributor: 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location: 
New York, New York, USA
ID Number: 
17.192.92
Credit Line: 
Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Rights: 
Provenance: 
Ex coll.: Stanislas Baron, Paris; J. Pierpont Morgan, New York
Related Image Identifier Link: 
MMA_.dp30516.tif