Grave-furniture (Ornaments of Keszthely type)

Hungarian

British Museum

late 6th-8th Century

Ornaments of Keszthely type (west end of Lake Balaton in Hungary), the site of a cemetery producing a lot of grave furniture, probably belonging to the Avars. Includes basket earrings in gold and silver, openwork filigree, long bronze pins and two patterns of penanular bronze bracelets.

• Medium: gold / silver / bronze
• ArtFunded in: 1933
• Presented by H Koetser & Sons through The Art Fund

Provenance

Memory Mr T F Althaus

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