Disk Brooch 6th century Frankish 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 Disk Brooch 464843 Frankish, Disk Brooch, 6th century, Silver-gilt cells, side strip, and beaded edging; garnets with deep-punched, standard foil backings; emerald; silver back with posts for spri
Disk Brooch 6th century Frankish 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 Disk Brooch 464843 Frankish, Disk Brooch, 6th century, Silver-gilt cells, side strip, and beaded edging; garnets with deep-punched, standard foil backings; emerald; silver back with posts for spring and pin; no spring/pin extant, Overall: 1 1/16 x 3/8 in. ( x 1 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917 ()
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