Detail View: The AMICA Library: Filigree Disk Brooch

AMICA ID: 
MMA_.17.193.107
AMICA Library Year: 
2001
Object Type: 
Costume and Jewelry
Creator Nationality: 
European; Frankish
Creator Name-CRT: 
Frankish
Title: 
Filigree Disk Brooch
View: 
Principal view
Creation Date: 
First half 7th c.
Creation Start Date: 
600
Creation End Date: 
650
Materials and Techniques: 
Top plate: silver-wrought sheet; repoussé; settings-glass (clear, blue cabochon, white beads); wire-plain (strip twisted), block twisted; gilt. Base plate: copper alloy-cast. Pin: iron.
Dimensions: 
D. 4.1 cm
AMICA Contributor: 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location: 
New York, New York, USA
ID Number: 
17.193.107
Credit Line: 
Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Rights: 
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_.dp30517.tif