Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Composite disc brooch

Merovingian
middle decades of 7th century
Composite disc brooch
middle decades of 7th century
Copper alloy, cement, gold, garnet, glass, mother-of-pearl, iron
diameter: 61 mm; depth: 21 mm
2012.2:113
Provenance
Cologne art market, 1968/69; Gunter Arras, Kerpen-Horrem, Rhineland, Germany; Karin Kroner, 1997; in Belgium since 2007; Wolfgang Wilhelm, Brussels; from whom acquired on 12 June 2009, by Eugene V. Thaw, New York and Santa Fe.
Classification
Department