brooch
- Museum number
- 2018,8026.1
- Description
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Ring-brooch, gold, with six stamped concave discs round the ring and one larger disc in the centre attached to the ring with two bars, each disc with central spike. From the ring hang five pendants, each with different incised geometric motifs. Maker's mark on reverse.
- Production date
- late 19thC - early 20thC
- Dimensions
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Length: 5.20 centimetres
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Width: 3.50 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This brooch takes a number of different ideas from Bronze Age or Iron Age metalwork and combines them into a wearable ring-brooch. One source is a bronze pin from Fjellerup, Funen, 700-500 BC in the form of a bar with discs and similar pendants at each end (J.J.A. Worsaae, ‘Nordiske Oldsager’ 1859, p. 52), while the decoration on the pendants can be seen in a range of Bronze Age ornaments in the National Museum, and the spikes in the centre of each disc recall the large belt-plates from numerous graves.
Dahl was one of the major jewellers in Copenhagen specialising in Scandinavian revival jewellery since the 1860s, supplying jewels for Princess Alexandra on her wedding to the Prince of Wales in 1863. Founded as E.F. Dahl 1round 1850, they were known as F. Dahl from the 1890s.
- Location
- On display (G47/dc11)
- Condition
- One of the pendants possibly a replacement.
- Acquisition date
- 2018
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 2018,8026.1