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Harness Pendant with Confronted Beasts

500–600
Not on view
Restituted
This artwork was restituted in May 2025. It is no longer in the museum’s collection.
The Visigoths enjoyed lively commercial contacts with lands all around the Mediterranean. This pendant reveals the familiarity of their artists with motifs from Greece and the Near East. Above the heads of the beasts is the loop through which a harness strap could be passed.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Harness Pendant with Confronted Beasts
  • Date: 500–600
  • Culture: Visigothic
  • Medium: Leaded brass
  • Dimensions: Overall: 3 1/2 x 3 x 3/16 in. (8.9 x 7.6 x 0.5 cm)
  • Classification: Metalwork-Brass
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Rogers Fund, Stephen K. Scher, Mrs. Maxime Hermanos, and Anonymous Gifts, Gift and Bequest of George Blumenthal, by exchange, and funds from various donors, 1990
  • Curatorial Department: Medieval Art and The Cloisters

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