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Ring brooch
Ring brooch

Ring brooch

last quarter of 14th century
Medium/TechniqueGold (ring: 83.2% gold, 10.2% silver, 6.6% copper; pin: 72.6% gold, 18.2% silver, 9.2% copper)
DimensionsOverall: 0.4 x 1.8 cm (3/16 x 11/16 in.)
Credit LineArthur Mason Knapp Fund
Accession number63.1526
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ClassificationsMetalwork
Collections
ProvenanceBy 1904, found at La Grève, Saint-Martin-des-Noyers, near Essarts, France by Vicomte de Rougé, probably Olivier de Rougé (b. 1862 - d. 1932), Essarts [see note]. 1963, sold by Charles Ratton (dealer), Paris to the MFA for $1,000. (Accession Date: October 17, 1963)

NOTE: L. Charbonneau-Lassay, "L'affique de la Grève," Revue du Bas-Poitou 17 (1904):131-132, fig. 1, reported that the Vicomte de Rougé had found this brooch in the moat of his farm at Grève, near Essarts.
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about 1500 or 17th century
Statuettes of two Angels
late 15th–early 16th century
Finial
Unidentified artist
mid-13th century
Casket
Louis Marcy
Late 19th to early 20th century
Cross
mid 6th–7th century
second half of 14th–first third of 15th century