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| Keywords: Frankish - Bow Fibula - Walters 542444.jpg Bow fibulae are also called digitated fibulae due to the radiating knobs that resemble fingers or digits emerging from the headplate The knobs of early 4th-century fibulae were functional and held the springs of the pin At a later date as in this five-knobbed example made in the first half of the 6th century the knobs were purely decorative This five-knobbed fibula is set with red glass pastes on the digits and garnets on the bow It is a type commonly found in northern France and the Rhineland 1st half Other date century 6 Early Medieval gilt bronze with garnets and glass paste cm 9 1 5 2 0 9 accession number 54 2444 11727 Carlebach Gallery New York date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum 1959 by purchase Museum purchase with funds provided by the S A P Fund 1959 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 Smith College Museum of Art Early Medieval Research Smith College Museum of Art Northampton 1996 Jewelry - Ancient to Modern The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1979-1980 place of origin Rhineland Germany Walters Art Museum license Sösdala-Untersiebenbrunn style Medieval metalwork in the Walters Art Museum Jewellery in the Walters Art Museum Merovingian fibulae Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Julius Carlebach 6th-century works | ||||
