Lot 70
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A MEROVINGIAN GOLD AND BRONZE DISC BROOCH WITH GARNET, HARDSTONE AND GLASS INLAYS
A MEROVINGIAN GOLD AND BRONZE DISC BROOCH WITH GARNET, HARDSTONE AND GLASS INLAYS
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A MEROVINGIAN GOLD AND BRONZE DISC BROOCH WITH GARNET, HARDSTONE AND GLASS INLAYS

CIRCA MID-7TH CENTURY A.D.

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A MEROVINGIAN GOLD AND BRONZE DISC BROOCH WITH GARNET, HARDSTONE AND GLASS INLAYS
CIRCA MID-7TH CENTURY A.D.
1 ½ in. (4 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Reputedly found Bingen am Rhein, Germany.
Daguerre Collection, Paris.
Marc Rosenberg (1852–1930) collection, Berlin, Germany.
Sammlung Marc Rosenberg; Hermann Ball & Paul Graupe, Berlin, 4 November 1929, lot 86.
Ernst Kofler-Truniger (1903-1990) and Marthe Kofler-Truniger (1918-1999), Lucerne (Inv. no. K 723).
Private Collection, Lucerne, acquired from the above circa 1974; thence by continuous descent to the current owner.

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Lot Essay

According to the 1929 Sammlung Marc Rosenberg catalogue this brooch was found in a grave near Bingen am Rhein, Germany, and 'the enclosed Roman gold coin was found in the dead man's mouth (the skull is in the possession Prof. Zurstrassen, Frankfurt am Main)'.
The circular brooch is composed of two elements, a bronze back-plate and a gold front plate, attached with silver rivets.
For a similar, see acc. no. 2007.163. at The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio. Another similar from the Thaw collection at The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, acc. no. 2012.2:113.

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