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Miniature Square-Headed Brooch

Unknown Artist

The affinity of these brooches, found in France, with objects from Kent is evidence of the spread of artistic traditions through export or copying.

Credit: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917

500-550
Silver-gilt; iron pin
4.5 x 1.6cm
17.191.46
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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