IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 118988 accession number: M.5-1904 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Bronze, overlaid with gold plate. Circular with cruciform design and decorated with carbuncles and glass pastes. In the centre there is a raised setting in which there was, in 1902, a blue cabochan paste - now lost. The ground is covered with "S" scrolls and circles. Reverse: a much rusted iron pin. title: brooch NOTES ----- type: history note value: William Henry Forman Collection, Pippbrook House, Dorking; his nephew, Major A.H. Browne, Callaly Castle, Northumberland; sold Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 19-22 June 1899, The Forman Collection . . . , lot 442 - described as from Kent. Sir J.G. Carmichael-Gibson, Bart. sold Christie, Manson & Woods, 12 May 1902, Works of Art of the Classic, Medieval and Renaissance Times, lot 185 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: F. McClean Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/118988 PEOPLE ------------------- Forman, William Henry CATEGORIES ------ category: jewellery DATING ------ creation date: 600 - 700 creation date earliest: 600 creation date latest: 700 culture: 7th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 5.2 CITATIONS -------- Fitzwilliam Museum McClean Bequest: Catalogue of the mediaeval ivories, enamels, jewellery, gems and miscellaneous objects bequeathed to the Museum by Frank McClean, M.A., F.R.S. The Forman Collection. Catalogue of the Egyptian, Greek and Roman Antiquities (the bronzes and vases described by Cecil H. Smith, LL.D. Assistant Keeper in the British Museum) and Objects of Art of the Renaissance, &c. in gold, silver, ivory &c. (First Portion.) Works of Art of the Classic, Medieval and Renaissance Times ---