Brooch

1200–800 BCE

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 301

This garment fastener is made from a single long piece of wire. The craftsman who made it probably blocked out the shape with wooden pegs on a board, weaving the metal wire in and around the posts.

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Title: Brooch
Date: 1200–800 BCE
Geography: Made in Carpathian Basin region
Culture: European
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: Overall: 4 3/8 x 1 9/16 x 11/16 in. (11.1 x 4 x 1.8 cm)
Classification: Metalwork-Bronze
Credit Line: Purchase, Caroline Howard Hyman Gift, in memory of Margaret English Frazer, 2000
Object Number: 2000.281.3
Curatorial Department: Medieval Art and The Cloisters

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