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Brooch in the Form of a Six-Pointed Star
late 700s-early 800s
- Medium
- gold with repoussé and filigree decoration; copper backplate
- Classification
- Metalwork
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 7.7 cm (3 1/16 in.)
- Culture
- Frankish, early Carolingian, late 8th century - early 9th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Medieval Art
- Credit line
- Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Women used brooches like this to fasten their veils beneath the chin. Its rare form--a hexagram--suggests that it also functioned as a talisman or amulet to attract good luck and to ward off evil.
