CIRCA 6TH CENTURY A.D.

Details

AN OSTROGOTHIC BROOCH WITH GARNET AND GLASS INLAYS
CIRCA 6TH CENTURY A.D.
2 1⁄16 in. (5.2 cm.) diam.

Provenance

with Cantoni, Milan.
Marc Rosenberg (1852–1930) collection, Berlin, Germany, acquired from the above.
Sammlung Marc Rosenberg; Hermann Ball & Paul Graupe, Berlin, 4 November 1929, lot 125.
Dr Wertheimer, Basel.
Ernst Kofler-Truniger (1903-1990) and Marthe Kofler-Truniger (1918-1999), Lucerne (Inv. no. K 727 D), acquired from the above.
Private Collection, Lucerne, acquired from the above circa 1974; thence by continuous descent to the current owner.

Literature

H. Rupp, Die Herkunft der Zelleneinlage und die Almandin-Scheibenfibeln im Rheinland, Bonn, 1937, p. 76, pl. 21,2,5.
Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, Luzern, Zurich, 1964, p. 63, pl. 46, no. 602.

Exhibited

Kunsthaus, Zurich, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, Luzern, 7 June-2 August 1964.

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Lot Essay

For the type see British Museum inv. no. AF.529. For a Merovingian example in the Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire, Belgium, see inv. no. B000787-007.

Marc Rosenberg was a German authority on the gold-working techniques used by various early civilizations as well as a collector of gold and silver objects.

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