Square-Headed Bow Brooch
| Title | Square-Headed Bow Brooch |
|---|---|
| Date | 500–600 6th century |
| Medium | Gilded copper alloy inlaid with niello |
| Classification | Metalwork-Copper |
| Origin | Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon |
| Holding institution | The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Credit line | Purchase, Rogers Fund, and Alastair B. Martin, Levy Hermanos Foundation Inc. and J. William Middendorf II Gifts, 1985 |
| Rights | Public domain (CC0). Free to use for any purpose. |
About this artwork
“Square-Headed Bow Brooch” is a work of unattributed authorship, dated 500–600. It is executed in gilded copper alloy inlaid with niello and classified as metalwork-copper. This work is in the public domain (CC0), so the image may be downloaded and reused for any purpose without permission (see the licence note below).
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Dated to 500–600. Explore the wider set of works from the 6th century held in the archive.
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Recorded origin: Anglo-Saxon. Browse more public-domain art from Anglo-Saxon.
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Made available through the The Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access programme, which explicitly places this work in the public domain.
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