31 janvier 2017
Disk Brooch with Cameo, Langobardic (mount); Roman (cameo), ca. 600 (mount); 100–300 (cameo)
Disk Brooch with Cameo, Langobardic (mount); Roman (cameo), ca. 600 (mount); 100–300 (cameo). Sheet gold, onyx, glass, and wire. Overall: 2 7/16 x 1/4 in. (6.2 x 0.7 cm). Purchase, 1895, 95.15.101. © 2000–2017 The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Langobards often embellished their jewelry with stones carved centuries earlier by Roman or Etruscan craftsmen. These gems, valued for their antiquity, linked their Langobardic wearers to the illustrious peoples who preceded them on the Italian peninsula. The filigree decoration of twisted wire arranged in curls and soldered to the gold is a metalworking technique also employed on many of the rings on view nearby.
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