Bronze enamelled brooch

Description

A bronze enamelled brooch. It is circular and decorated with red and blue enamel arranged in concentric rings around a flat topped knob.

Object data

Accession number

MG 139/123

Creator

Unspecified

Date made

2nd or 3rd Century AD

Materials

Metal; Copper Alloy; Bronze; Glass; Enamel

Collection

Dimensions (cm)

Archival information

File of material relating to a bronze and enamel brooch. Includes photocopy of information card with photocopy of image of object (date unspecified); extract from exhibition catalogue in German (c. 1972) issued by the Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim, which describes present object. Transcription of entry from exhibition catalogue also present; Hunt Museum object comment sheet (10 July 1996) containing comments made about object by Lindsay Allason-Jones, Museum of Antiquities, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Describes it as a Romano-French disc brooch, late first-early second century.

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Technique

Copyright Attribution

Bronze enamelled brooch | Metal,Copper Alloy,Bronze, Glass,Enamel | 2nd or 3rd Century AD | The Hunt Collection | PD

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