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Lombardic gilded silver brooch from Tuscany, c.600 AD, one of the largest of its kind at the British Museum #219588292
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Silver gilt radiate headed brooch. Small head-plate with eleven knobs in the form of animal masks applied to a separate outer bar on copper alloy balusters. Oval foot plate with profiled bird head lappets and animal mask terminal, apparently a boar, flanked by bird and animal heads; cast Style II animal and geometric interlace; niello inlay; ribbed wire enrichments; cast gilded pin catch, transversely ribbed, with animal mask terminal.
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