bird brooch
- Museum number
- 1902,1108.23
- Description
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Gilt silver bird brooch: profile bird of prey; chip-carved triangles on feet, neck and base of wedge-shaped tail with concentric ribs; cabochon garnet eye; pair with no. 22.
- Production date
- 6thC
- Dimensions
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Length: 3.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Pair with 1902,1108.22
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Comment from Kidd, Haith & Ager ‘Summary Catalogue’ (draft MS)
Provenance:
Unrecorded, but said to be from "the district of the Rhine and Moselle", Germany; recent research has shown that the vendor has been notoriously unreliable.
Given by The Friends of The British Museum
Acquired from David Reiling of Mainz through Max Rosenheim
Published:
THIRY G. 1935. Die Chronologie der Vogelfibeln, Jahrbuch für Prähistorische und Ethnographische Kunst I, Berlin, pl. 19:71
THIRY G. 1939. Die Vogelfibeln der Germanischen Völkerwanderungszeit, Rheinische Forschungen zur Vorgeschichte III. Bonn, p. 107 no. 407, pl. 17:407
PIJOÁN J. 1942. Summa Artis. Historia General del Arte vol VIII Arte bárbaro y prerrománico desde el siglo IV hasta el año 1000. Madrid, p. 199 fig. 267, 5 left
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1902
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1902,1108.23
