Bracelet with Grapevine Pattern

Byzantine

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 301

Heavy, rigid gold bracelets like these are opened by the pins 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.

Bracelet with Grapevine Pattern, Gold - sheet, rod; engraved; wire - plain, beaded; granulation; strip - triangular sectioned., Byzantine

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