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Garnets, worked in the cloisonné technique, featured prominently in the luxury jewelry of the Franks. Jewelers would solder small compartments arranged in geometric patterns onto the surface of a metal disk. In those cells, or cloisons, they would place a textured piece of gold foil, which would show through the thin translucent garnet that would then be set on top.
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Title: Whorl-Shaped Brooch
Date: 550–650
Culture: Frankish
Medium: Copper alloy, gilding, niello, garnet
Dimensions: Overall: 1 5/16 x 5/16 in. (3.3 x 0.8 cm)
Classification: Metalwork-Copper
Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Object Number: 17.192.38
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