Rosette 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 Rosette Brooch 464847 Frankish, Rosette Brooch, 6th century, Silver-gilt, garnets with patterned foil backings, green glass, pearl, Overall: 7/8 x 1/8 in. ( x cm). The Metropolitan Museu
Rosette 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 Rosette Brooch 464847 Frankish, Rosette Brooch, 6th century, Silver-gilt, garnets with patterned foil backings, green glass, pearl, Overall: 7/8 x 1/8 in. ( x cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917 ()
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