disc brooch
- Museum number
- 1930,1024.23
- Description
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Brass disc brooch; raised central field with central palmette flanked by foliate tendrils; blue green and white champlevé enamel inlays, both translucent and opaque in 13 zones; transversely ribbed, flanged rim; motifs picked out with line of punched decoration; the back is plain with no visible sign of pin-attachments, however tin was detected in deposits on the back which may be the remains of solder used to atach the disc.
- Production date
- 9thC(late)-10thC
- Dimensions
-
Diameter: 6.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Comment from Kidd, Haith & Ager 'Summary Catalogue' (draft MS)
Provenance:
Deta, com. Timişoara, Romania; found 1882 at the New Cemetery
Purchased from:
László (Ladislaus) Mautner of Budapest
Published:
KÁRÁSZ L. 1896b. A Dettai Ékszerek, Archaeologiai Értesítő 16, Budapest, pp. 226 7, 229 fig. 3
HAMPEL J. 1897. A Régibb Középkor (IV-X. Század) Emlékei Magyarhonban II. Budapest, vol. II, p. 486, pl. CCCXXXa
HAMPEL J. 1905. Alterthümer des Frühen Mittelalters in Ungarn I-III, Brunswick, vol. I, pp. 846-8, vol. II, pp. 529-30 no. 1, vol. III, pl. 370:2
WILSON D.M. 1957a. An Enamelled Disk-brooch, BMQ XXI for 1957-59, no. 2, London, p. 53 note 16
GIESLER J. 1978. Zu einer Gruppe mittelalterlicher Emailscheibenfibeln, Zeitschrift für Archäologie des Mittelalters 6, Cologne, p. 64 notes 18, 19 and 22, p. 71 note 54
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1930
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1930,1024.23
