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| Keywords: Frankish - Belt Buckle - Walters 542347 - Back.jpg This highly decorative buckle is unusual in that it is made of two pieces riveted together It is decorated with incised and punched patterns and features a cross at the center The tongue has a schematic human face and an animal head terminal Such animal head terminals are common on Migration period jewelry century 7 Early Medieval bronze cm 5 5 13 7 1 accession number 54 2347 34764 Joseph Brummer New York Joseph Brummer Sale Parke-Bernet Galleries New York May 12 1949 no 278 Walters Art Museum 1949 by purchase Museum purchase 1949 Early Christian and Byzantine Art Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1947 Jewelry - Ancient to Modern The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1979-1980 place of origin Burgundy France Walters Art Museum license Medieval metalwork in the Walters Art Museum Merovingian belt buckles Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
