Pair of Bracelets with a Grapevine Pattern in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2010

Pair of Bracelets with Grapevine Pattern
Byzantine, found in 1902, at Karavas, Cyprus
Made late 500s-early 600s, possibly in Constantinople

Accession # 17.190.148, .149

Heavy, rigid gold bracelets like this pair are opened by the pins S beside the medallions at their centers. The grapevines decorating these bracelets were made by attaching small gold sheets worked as leaves and triangular groups of grapes to thick gold wires.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.