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| Keywords: Visigothic - Belt Buckle - Walters 54424.jpg The square plate of this buckle is divided by cloisons wire strips into small cavities set with garnets and blue and green glass pastes Cross-hatched gold foil underlies the remains of the central green paste This would have given a shimmering effect to the setting when this buckle was new Such buckles are characteristic of Visigothic metalwork century 6 Early Medieval bronze with gold garnets and glass paste cm 4 2 7 3 2 accession number 54 424 34842 Found in Estramadura Spain Henri Daguerre Paris date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters Baltimore October 10 1930 by purchase Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1930 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 Arts Minneapolis; Toledo Museum of Art Toledo; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Sarasota 1984-1987 Jewelry from the Walters Art Museum and the Zucker Family Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1987 Heirs of the Empire in North Africa-The Kingdom of the Vandals Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe Karlsruhe 2009-2010 place of origin Egypt Walters Art Museum license Medieval metalwork in the Walters Art Museum Visigothic art Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
