401, Lot: 716. Estimate $100. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Gilt silver brooch. Francia, Merovingian, AD 481-752. S-shaped brooch with bird head terminals with garnet insets for eyes (one now missing). Height: 2.8cm; weight: 3.55g. Gilding a bit worn. Remaining garnet chipped. Cf. Metropolitan Museum Collection 17.192.184.

From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind.