Disk Brooch first half 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 top.. Disk Brooch 465084 Frankish, Disk Brooch, first half 6th century, Silver-gilt, garnets with patterned foil backings., Overall: 1 7/16 x 1/4 in. (3.6 x 0.6 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917 (17.191.38)
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