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Gold Disc Brooch with Onyx Cameo and Glass Cabochons in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2010

Gold Disc Brooch with Onyx Cameo and Glass Cabochons in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2010
Gold Disc Brooch with Onyx Cameo and Glass Cabochons
Langobardic (mount), Roman (cameo)
Made about 600 (mount), 100-300 (cameo)

Accession # 95.15.101

The Langobards often embellished their own jewelry with gems 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.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

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