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Title: Comb Brooch Artist/Maker: Unknown Culture: Etruscan Place: Etruria (Place created) Date: 700–650 B.C. Medium: Silver and gold Object Number: 81.AM.175 Dimensions: 5.6 × 5.7 × 1 cm (2 3/16 × 2 1/4 × 3/8 in.) Credit Line: Gift of Alan Salke Object Type: Comb This comb brooch has been assembled from twenty fragments, the central section of which consists of a rectangular silver plate, over which was folded a gold sheet decorated with thirteen hemispherical beads within thin wire frames. Serpentine wire soldered between twisted wires forms the border on all four edges. Attached to the back, thicker silver wires, which have been folded into ten pairs of loops, project from both long sides of the central plate. Two assemblies of ten separately made hooks (one is lacking) are threaded through the loops. On the top of each long, curved prong is a single hemispherical bead and a short length of serpentine filigree within twisted wires. Comb brooches such as this example are relatively rare. The closest parallels are found in the cemeteries in Marsiliana d’Albegna, Vetulonia, and several other northern Etruscan settlements, where burials replete with luxury objects in precious metals, ivory, amber, glass, and bronze have been uncovered. Large brooches of gold and silver were used to fasten a mantle at the shoulder, and were primarily worn by men. From the southern Etruscan site of Cerveteri, male ancestor figures in the Tomb of the Five Chairs don a rounded mantle secured at the right shoulder with a similar brooch. Standing out against the red plaid textile, their clasps were prominent badges of honor and wealth. Text from: www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/9838/unknown-maker-comb-brooch-etruscan-700-650-bc

Title: Comb Brooch Artist/Maker: Unknown Culture: Etruscan Place: Etruria (Place created) Date: 700–650 B.C. Medium: Silver and gold Object Number: 81.AM.175 Dimensions: 5.6 × 5.7 × 1 cm (2 3/16 × 2 1/4 × 3/8 in.) Credit Line: Gift of Alan Salke Object Type: Comb This comb brooch has been assembled from twenty fragments, the central section of which consists of a rectangular silver plate, over which was folded a gold sheet decorated with thirteen hemispherical beads within thin wire frames. Serpentine wire soldered between twisted wires forms the border on all four edges. Attached to the back, thicker silver wires, which have been folded into ten pairs of loops, project from both long sides of the central plate. Two assemblies of ten separately made hooks (one is lacking) are threaded through the loops. On the top of each long, curved prong is a single hemispherical bead and a short length of serpentine filigree within twisted wires. Comb brooches such as this example are relatively rare. The closest parallels are found in the cemeteries in Marsiliana d’Albegna, Vetulonia, and several other northern Etruscan settlements, where burials replete with luxury objects in precious metals, ivory, amber, glass, and bronze have been uncovered. Large brooches of gold and silver were used to fasten a mantle at the shoulder, and were primarily worn by men. From the southern Etruscan site of Cerveteri, male ancestor figures in the Tomb of the Five Chairs don a rounded mantle secured at the right shoulder with a similar brooch. Standing out against the red plaid textile, their clasps were prominent badges of honor and wealth. Text from: www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/9838/unknown-maker-comb-brooch-etruscan-700-650-bc

Brooch, 970–1030 Ottonian (probably northern Italy) Gold with pearls, glass, and cloisonné enamel Overall 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm) Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917 (17.191.7) This brooch in the shape of a star is decorated with miniature architectural forms constructed of fine gold filigree and granulation. It is the kind of costume adornment worn by high-ranking members of the Ottonian court. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/17.191.7

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

Gold Disc Brooch with Onyx Cameo and Glass Cabochons Langobardic (mount), Roman (cameo) Made about 600 (mount), 100-300 (cameo) Accession # 95.15.101 The Langobards often embellished their own jewelry with gems carved centuries earlier by Roman or Etruscan craftsmen. These gems, valued for their antiquity, linked their Langobardic wearers to the illustrious peoples who preceded them on the Italian peninsula. Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Gold Disc Brooch Worked in Repousse with twisted wire and filigree Langobardic Made about 600 Accession # 52.30 Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Open Ring Brooch, early 800s Pictish or Irish; Found near Galway, Ireland Silver with amber insets Diam. 2 3/8 in. (6 cm), L. (pin) 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm) Purchase, Rogers Fund, and Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, by exchange, 1981 (1981.413) Iron Age Celts of Britain were the first to develop the open ring brooch, a type that would remain widespread in Great Britain and Ireland through the early Middle Ages. Each terminal of this example in silver is decorated with three stylized masks in the form of birds' or bats' heads, enframing a polished amber. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1981.413

Brooch in the Form of a Bird of Prey, 500–600 Vendel; made in Scandinavia Copper alloy with silver overlay L. 2 3/8 in. (6 cm) Purchase, Leon Levy and Shelby White Gift, Rogers Fund and funds from various donors, 1991 (1991.308) This crouching bird of prey, usually identified as an eagle, is thought to represent Odin, the supreme god of war and battle in Nordic mythology. The design is an early example of the sort of animal motifs that become so important in Viking art. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1991.308

Title: Square-Headed Bow Brooch Date: 6th century Culture: Anglo-Saxon Medium: Copper alloy, gilt quaternary, niello Dimensions: Overall: 5 3/8 x 3 x 15/16 in. (13.6 x 7.6 x 2.4 cm) Classification: Metalwork-Copper Credit Line: Purchase, Rogers Fund, and Alastair B. Martin, Levy Hermanos Foundation Inc. and J. William Middendorf II Gifts, 1985 Accession Number: 1985.209 Description: Two prevailing influences converged somewhere between the Baltic and the Black Sea to initiate the development of this kind of brooch. Examples of small silver bow fibulae with square or rectangular heads, which originated in the Crimea and date from the third century A.D., are thought to have provided the model for the square or rectangular head of the type. Northern elements are represented by the open-jawed heads of the monsters just below the bow, in addition to other animal motifs, and by the partitioned, lozenge-shaped foot plate, whose surface is decorated with "kerbshnitt" (chip carving) and its extremities with raised knobs (the one on the end of the foot is now missing). Dividing the foot is a strip of niello (a black substance containing silver, copper, lead, and sulphur) terminating in an animal's head, and above the foot is a pair of stylized animal heads with gaping jaws. The bow is plain and is divided into panels by bands of niello. It is the border of freestanding masks that sets the Museum's example apart from the majority of great square-headed brooches, and allies it to a small group identified as the Lutton Heath type. The Museum's brooch, like most of the approximately 150 known square-headed examples that were made in England throughout the sixth century, displays the Anglo-Saxon preference for lavish surface decoration. These brooches, traditionally of gilt bronze, were used to secure the garments of peasant farmers. They were worn with the head plate upward, unlike some of the related Continental bow fibulae. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/mediev...

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.

Disk Brooch Copper alloy inlaid with millefiore enamel. Roman Made 100-300, probably in Gaul Accession # 2002.483.2 Millefiore enameling was widely popular in Gaul, where it was often used to decorate disk brooches and vessels. In this technique, the artist fuses together glass rods of different colors. The multi-colored rods are then cut into cross-sections, which are then placed in a metal base and heated sufficiently for them to adhere. The result is an intricate pattern of flowers and checkerboards. Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Disk Brooch Copper alloy inlaid with millefiore enamel. Roman Made 100-300, probably in Gaul Accession # 66.16 Millefiore enameling was widely popular in Gaul, where it was often used to decorate disk brooches and vessels. In this technique, the artist fuses together glass rods of different colors. The multi-colored rods are then cut into cross-sections, which are then placed in a metal base and heated sufficiently for them to adhere. The result is an intricate pattern of flowers and checkerboards. Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

S-Shaped Brooch Copper alloy Roman Made 100-300 Accession # 1991.279 With their sinuous, asymmetrical designs and swirling arrangements of commas, circles, and fan shapes, this varied group of objects conveys the pervasiveness of a Celtic aesthetic in the western provinces during the first centuries A.D. Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Dragonesque Brooch, 1st century Provincial Roman, probably made in Britain Bronze with champlevé enamel 1 7/8 x 7/8 x 3 /16 in. (4.7 x 2.2 x 8 cm) Rogers Fund, 1980 (1980.450) These "dragonesque" brooches were popular in England at about the time of the Claudian invasion in 43 A.D. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1980.450

Bow-shaped brooch Copper alloy Celtic Made 475-400 BC, probably in northern France Accession # 17.191.112 Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.