Box-Shaped Brooch
Box-shaped brooches such as this one were worn by the Viking women of Gotland (the islands in the Baltic Sea south of Sweden) to fasten a shawl or cloak about the shoulders. They also doubled as containers to hold small objects. A cast open latticework design fills the banded...
Images (2)
Artifact
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20160
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contentType
object
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normalized
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| provenance |
provenance
James Graham & Sons, Inc., New York; Walters Art Museum, 1952, by purchase
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CC0
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language
en
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2
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import
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| imageCount | 2 |
| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2373 |