disc brooch
- Museum number
- 1865,0712.1
- Title
- Object: The Castellani Brooch
- Description
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Gold disc brooch; central roundel of cloisonné enamel representing a female bust wearing a brooch with three drop-shaped pendants and a stylised cypress-tree to either side of her head; around this a border of cloisonné enamel flanked either side by a circle of small rings with pearls between them; on lower sides three loops for pendants; backed with silver showing marks of pin and loop.
- Production date
- 7thC(late)-9thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 6.70 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Compare with 1978,1002.407
See also Lasko 1972, pl. 5; Haseloff 1990, 20, 45, fig. 18; C. Gere & J. Rudoe, 'Jewellery in the Age of Queen Victoria: A Mirror to the World', London, British Museum, 2010, fig. 395, p.410.
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See discussion in T. Goskar, 2009, 'Objects, People and Exchange: Material culture in medieval southern Italy c. 600-c. 1200', unpubd PhD thesis, University of Southampton, 149-166.
- Location
- On display (G41/dc18/sB)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2010 26 Feb-13 Jun, Germany, Bonn, Kunst and Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Byzantium: Splendour and Daily Life
2000 17 Jun-10 Dec, Italy, Brescia, Santa Giulia Museo della Città, The Future of the Longobards - Italy during the construction of Charlemagne’s Europe
- Acquisition date
- 1865
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1865,0712.1
