COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
MMA_.17.193.90
AMICA Library Year:
2001
Object Type:
Costume and Jewelry
Creator Nationality:
European; Frankish
Creator Name-CRT:
Frankish
Title:
Filigree Quatrefoil Brooch
View:
Principal view
Creation Date:
Second half 7th-early 8th c.
Creation Start Date:
650
Creation End Date:
733
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
Provenance:
Ex coll.: Friedrich Queckenberg, Niederbreisig, Germany; Joseph Queckenberg, Niederbreisig, Germany; J. Pierpont Morgan, New York
Context:
From Niederbreisig (Rheinland Pfalz, Germany)
Related Image Identifier Link:
MMA_.dp30495.tif
