LaurieAnnie's photos with the keyword: garnet

Disk Brooch, early 600s Anglo-Saxon; Probably made in Faversham, southeastern England; Found at Teynam, southeastern England Gold, cells inset with garnets and glass, border inlaid with niello Diam. 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm) Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1987 (1987.90.1) Anglo-Saxon artists were master gold- and silversmiths. Tribal leaders commissioned splendid objects for their own use and bestowed elaborately adorned jewelry and weapons on friends and followers. These three pieces, all of which demonstrate the delicacy of Anglo-Saxon jewelry making, come from the region of Kent, in southeastern England, which was a great center of jewelry production. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1987.90.1-3

Two Pendants, early 600s Anglo-Saxon; Probably made in Faversham, southeastern England Gold, cells inset with garnets Pendant 1: Diam. 1 1/8 in. (2.9 cm); Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1987 (1987.90.2-3) Anglo-Saxon artists were master gold- and silversmiths. Tribal leaders commissioned splendid objects for their own use and bestowed elaborately adorned jewelry and weapons on friends and followers. These three pieces, all of which demonstrate the delicacy of Anglo-Saxon jewelry making, come from the region of Kent, in southeastern England, which was a great center of jewelry production. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1987.90.1-3

Two Pendants, early 600s Anglo-Saxon; Probably made in Faversham, southeastern England Gold, cells inset with garnets Pendant 2: Diam. 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm) Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1987 (1987.90.2-3) Anglo-Saxon artists were master gold- and silversmiths. Tribal leaders commissioned splendid objects for their own use and bestowed elaborately adorned jewelry and weapons on friends and followers. These three pieces, all of which demonstrate the delicacy of Anglo-Saxon jewelry making, come from the region of Kent, in southeastern England, which was a great center of jewelry production. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1987.90.1-3

S-Shaped Brooch Gilded silver with garnets Langobardic Made late 500s Accession # 17.191.199 The S-shape of this brooch is in fact the body of a fantastic animal with a bird's head at either end. Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Roundrels with busts of Artemis and Athena 2nd century B.C. Greek Hellenistic Gold, garnet, and enamel each: diam. 7.9 cm. (3 1/8 in.) Place made: Greece / / Thessaly Museum purchase Object Number: y1938-49, 50 Text from: artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/collections/ancient/search/

Roundrels with busts of Artemis and Athena 2nd century B.C. Greek Hellenistic Gold, garnet, and enamel each: diam. 7.9 cm. (3 1/8 in.) Place made: Greece / / Thessaly Museum purchase Object Number: y1938-49, 50 Text from: artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/collections/ancient/search/