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| Keywords: Frankish - Disk Fibula - Walters 571884.jpg While most disk fibulae are decorated with filigree this one was made by the technique of repoussé in which metal foil is impressed from the rear to form a raised design The gilt silver foil decorated with C-shaped scrolls and raised beaded outlines is attached by four rivets onto a circular bronze base and set with four triangular-cut garnets arrayed around a green glass bead The corroded remains of an iron clasp on the reverse once fasten the fibula to clothing and still hold imbedded wool cloth fibers A Frankish man would have used a fibula like this one to pin his cloak at the right shoulder late Other date century 7 Early Medieval bronze gilt silver garnet glass paste and iron cm 1 5 4 2 d x diam accession number 57 1884 10823 Carlebach Gallery New York date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum 1959 by purchase Museum purchase with funds provided by the S A P Fund 1959 Objects of Adornment Five Thousand Years of Jewelry from the Walters Art Gallery Baltimore Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum New York; Chrysler Museum of Art Norfolk; Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh; San Antonio Museum of Art San Antonio; Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa; Honolulu Academy of Arts Honolulu; New Orleans Museum of Art New Orleans; Milwaukee Art Museum Milwaukee; Minneapolis Institute of Arts Minneapolis; Toledo Museum of Art Toledo; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Sarasota 1984-1987 Jewelry from the Walters Art Museum and the Zucker Family Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1987 Jewelry - Ancient to Modern The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1979-1980 place of origin Rhineland Germany Walters Art Museum license Medieval metalwork in the Walters Art Museum Jewellery in the Walters Art Museum Merovingian fibulae Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Julius Carlebach 7th-century works | ||||
