Detail View: The AMICA Library: Disk-on-Bow Brooch

AMICA ID: 
MMA_.47.100.25a-b
AMICA Library Year: 
2001
Object Type: 
Costume and Jewelry
Creator Nationality: 
European; Scandinavian
Creator Name-CRT: 
Vendel, perhaps made in Norway
Title: 
Disk-on-Bow Brooch
View: 
Additional view
Creation Date: 
Early 8th c.
Creation Start Date: 
700
Creation End Date: 
733
Materials and Techniques: 
Appliqués: copper alloy-cast, chased; gilt. Base plate: copper alloy-wrought sheet; garnet (patterned foil); tinned. Backplate: copper alloy (leaded bronze)-cast; chased, punched, engraved; gilt.
Style or Period: 
Vendel
Dimensions: 
L. 20.5 cm
AMICA Contributor: 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location: 
New York, New York, USA
ID Number: 
47.100.25a-b
Credit Line: 
Fletcher Fund, 1947
Rights: 
Provenance: 
Ex coll.: F. R. Martin, Sweden (?); Colbat-Ready, Paris (sold 1919); Rivère, Paris (?); [Lucien Marcel Bing, Paris (sold 1920)]; Haas , Paris (?) (sold 1934); [Ernest Brummer, Paris (in 1934); [Joseph Brummer, New York]
Related Image Identifier Link: 
MMA_.dp30733.tif