Description
This buckle plate of sheet gold backed with bronze is set with pieces of carnelian and bordered by repoussé ornament. The technique is typically Hunnish.
Conservation
Date
Description
Narrative
4/19/1984
Treatment
cleaned
Exhibitions
Early Christian and Byzantine Art. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore. 1947.
Jewelry - Ancient to Modern. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1979-1980.
Objects of Adornment: Five Thousand Years of Jewelry from the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa; Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis; Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota. 1984-1987.
Jewelry from the Walters Art Gallery and the Zucker Family Collection. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1987.
Realms of Faith: Medieval and Byzantine Art from the Walters Art Museum. Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville. 2001-2002.
Realms of Faith: Medieval and Byzantine Art from the Walters Art Museum. Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville. 2002-2005.
Provenance
William T. / Henry Walters Collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
