Ornament in Flux

Techniques and Processes

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Upper Left: Belt buckle, Visigothic, 525-560 CE, Copper alloy, garnet, glass, Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2014.37.14

Upper Right: Buckle plate, Ostrogothic? Crimean Gothic?, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 17.190.100a

Middle and Bottom Left: Belt buckle, Visigothic, 6th century CE, Partially gilded bronze, glass, Musée de Cluny, Cl. 8872

Middle Right: Buckle counterplate, Mediterranean (Vandal?), 5th-6th century CE?, Copper alloy, garnet, banded glass?, Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2014.37.17

Bottom Right: Disc brooch, Frankish, 6th century CE, Silver gilded cells, garnet, emerald, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 17.191.150

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