Cloisonné belt buckle

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Visigothic period
1st half of 6th century
Copper alloy, gilding, glass, garnet, bone[?]
length: 116 mm; width: 56 mm (plate); diameter: 9 mm (plate)
Thaw Collection
2012.2:59
Provenance: 
Sale, Sotheby's, London, 3 December 1991, lot 19; Neil F. Phillips, Esq., Montreal; sale, Christie's, New York, 18 December 1997, lot 322; from which acquired by Eugene V. Thaw, New York and Santa Fe.
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