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Dragon-Shaped Brooch in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2010

Dragon-Shaped Brooch in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2010
Dragonesque Brooch, 1st century
Provincial Roman, probably made in Britain
Bronze with champlevé enamel
1 7/8 x 7/8 x 3 /16 in. (4.7 x 2.2 x 8 cm)
Rogers Fund, 1980 (1980.450)

These "dragonesque" brooches were popular in England at about the time of the Claudian invasion in 43 A.D.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1980.450
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