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Description: | Late Saxon Cloisonné enamel gilt copper alloy disc brooch with seven lobes, each originally containing a glass sphere. Apart from these tiny missing pieces of glass, the brooch is in remarkable condition with gilding present over most of the metal surfaces, even on the edges of the cells, & the enamel cells are brightly coloured. Soldered onto the reverse are a pin lug consisting of two lugs with a wire pin looped around an copper alloy spindle held by the lugs, & a short, low catchplate. The cloisonné enamel decoration consists of four semicircular cells, two blue & two yellow, producing a central equal-armed cross pattée-shaped cell of black enamel, in the middle of which there is a small lozengiform cell of white enamel. The glass spheres in the lobes are coloured as follows (starting at the uppermost in the drawing & going clockwise): translucent green, uncertain (fragment only), missing, opaque white, missing, missing, translucent blue. The design is the same as that of an unprovenanced & lost example described by Buckton (1986) 10, fig.2 no.5. Late 10th - 11th cent.
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