Eagle-Shaped Fibula
500s
Maker Unknown
Medieval Art
Eagle-Shaped Fibula, 500s. Frankish, Migration period, 6th century. Bronze with traces of gilding and silver, and garnets; overall: 2.9 x 1.3 x 0.8 cm (1 1/8 x 1/2 x 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1918.928
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Jewelry
- Formatted Medium
- bronze with traces of gilding and silver, and garnets
- Dimensions
- Overall: 2.9 x 1.3 x 0.8 cm (1 1/8 x 1/2 x 5/16 in.)
- Departments
- Medieval Art
- Accession Number
- 1918.928
- Credit Line
- Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
- Exhibitions
- Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Bavarian Nationalmuseum, Munich (5/10/2007 - 9/16/2007), the J. Paul Getty Musuem, Los Angeles (10/30/2007 - 1/20/2008) and Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN (2/13/2009 - 6/7/2009): "Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art"
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 106A Migration Period & Coptic
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