Square-Headed Bow Brooch

Unknown Artist

500–600

Square-Headed Bow Brooch by Unknown Artist

Medium

Gilded copper alloy inlaid with niello

Dimensions

Overall: 5 3/8 x 3 x 15/16 in. (13.6 x 7.6 x 2.4 cm)

Classification

Metalwork-Copper

Culture

Anglo-Saxon

Department

Medieval Art

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Rogers Fund, and Alastair B. Martin, Levy Hermanos Foundation Inc. and J. William Middendorf II Gifts, 1985

Accession Number

1985.209

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