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| Keywords: Irish Celtic - Penannular Brooch - Walters 542341 - Back Detail A.jpg Pins of this kind developed from Roman models and were fashionable as cloak fasteners from the 4th through the 10th centuries in the British Isles The wearer pierced the fabric with the pin pointed upwards or to the side and twisted the round hoop described as penannular because it takes the shape of an incomplete circle to lock the pin and gathered fabric in place Originally this early medieval Irish brooch would have had red enamel in the hollowed out areas making a richly colored background for the bronze spirals on the terminals and the hatched and oval decorations on the pin century 6 7 Early Medieval bronze with traces of gilt cm 12 5 6 5 1 2 accession number 54 2341 4768 Robert Day Cork Robert Day Sale Sotheby Wilkinson Hodge London May 19-22 1913 no 382 William Randolph Hearst date and mode of acquisition unknown Joseph Brummer date and mode of acquisition unknown Joseph Brummer Sale Parke-Bernet Galleries New York May 11-14 1949 no 277 Walters Art Museum 1949 by purchase Museum purchase 1949 Early Christian and Byzantine Art Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1947 The Arts of Man Dallas Museum of Art Dallas 1962 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 place of origin Ireland Walters Art Museum license Medieval metalwork in the Walters Art Museum Penannular brooches Jewellery in the Walters Art Museum Celtic art | ||||
