Brooch
Unknown
1200–800 BCE · Bronze · Medieval Art
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.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 1200–800 BCE
- Medium
- Bronze
- Culture
- European
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Credit line
- Purchase, Caroline Howard Hyman Gift, in memory of Margaret English Frazer, 2000
