S-Shaped Brooch mid-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.. S-Shaped Brooch 465246 Frankish, S-Shaped Brooch, mid-6th century, Silver-gilt, garnets, Overall: 1/16 x 1 3/16 x 3/8 in. (0.1 x 3 x 0.9 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917 (17.192.184)

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S-Shaped Brooch mid-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.. S-Shaped Brooch 465246 Frankish, S-Shaped Brooch, mid-6th century, Silver-gilt, garnets, Overall: 1/16 x 1 3/16 x 3/8 in. (0.1 x 3 x 0.9 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917 (17.192.184)

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