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Grave-furniture (Ornaments of Keszthely type)
Unknown Artist
- Art Funded
- 1933
- Presented by
- H Koetser & Sons through The Art Fund
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.
Provenance
Memory Mr T F Althaus