Bird-Shaped Brooch
Unknown Artist
500–600
Medium
Silver-gilt, garnets with patterned foil backings
Dimensions
Overall: 1/2 x 1 3/16 x 1/4 in. (1.2 x 3 x 0.7 cm)
Classification
Metalwork-Silver
Culture
Frankish
Department
Medieval Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Accession Number
17.191.168
Tags
Birds