Lot Essay
The elaborately shaped cells would have once held intricately cut garnet inlays - typical of Merovingian jewellery. With a sheet gold backplate and casings for the bronze pin, which is now missing.
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CIRCA SECOND HALF OF THE 6TH CENTURY A.D.
Details
A MEROVINGIAN GOLD DISC BROOCH
CIRCA SECOND HALF OF THE 6TH CENTURY A.D.
1 5/8 in. (4.2 cm.) diam.
CIRCA SECOND HALF OF THE 6TH CENTURY A.D.
1 5/8 in. (4.2 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Comtesse Martine-Marie-Octavie Pol de Béhague (1870-1939), Paris; thence by descent to Marquis Jean-Louis Hubert de Ganay (1922-2013), France.
Antiquités et Objets d'Art: Collection de Martine, Comtesse de Béhague, Provenant de la Succession du Marquis de Ganay, Sotheby's, Monaco, 5 December 1987, lot 41.
with Robin Symes, London, 2006.
Antiquités et Objets d'Art: Collection de Martine, Comtesse de Béhague, Provenant de la Succession du Marquis de Ganay, Sotheby's, Monaco, 5 December 1987, lot 41.
with Robin Symes, London, 2006.
Literature
N. Case, Art in the Dark Ages in Europe, Catalogue of an Exhibition held at the Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1930, p. 74, no. 28.
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.
Brought to you by
Claudio Corsi
Specialist, Head of Department
The elaborately shaped cells would have once held intricately cut garnet inlays - typical of Merovingian jewellery. With a sheet gold backplate and casings for the bronze pin, which is now missing.