Composite disc brooch

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Merovingian
middle deca.des of 7th century
Copper alloy, cement, gold, garnet, glass, mother-of-pearl, iron
diameter: 61 mm; depth: 21 mm
Thaw Collection
2012.2:113
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Cologne art market, 1968/69; Gunter Arras, Kerpen-Horrem, Rhineland, Germany; Karin Kroner, 1997; in Belgium since 2007; Wolfgang Wilhelm, Brussels; from whom acquired on 12 June 2009, by Eugene V. Thaw, New York and Santa Fe.
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