School/style:
Style I
Cultures/periods:
Germanic
Production date:
500
Found/Acquired:
Europe: Scandinavia: Sweden: Gotland
Materials:
silver; gold; niello
Gold-plated silver brooch in the form of a ray-shaped head, cast: semi-circular head plate with wavy edges (one side damaged), three solid animal head handles and panel with carved style I animal masks and profiled torsos; bow with scrolls and oblique lines framing middle rib; diamond-shaped foot plate with wavy edges around panel with scrolls over two masks separated by a ribbed segment and with a pair of side handles in the form of animal heads and a similar terminal; frame with crossed triangles inlaid with niello.