Belt clasp
Details
- Palette
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- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- 4 3/16 × 4 1/8 × 13/16 in. (10.7 × 10.5 × 2.1 cm)
- Department
- Ancient West Asian Art
- Holding institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Image provider
- metropolitan-museum-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Rogers Fund, 1921
Art Genome Taxonomy
9 tags
Subject Matter
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Animals Both · 98%
The Metropolitan Museum of Art lists Birds and Deer as subjects, and the openwork design visibly includes multiple animal forms, including two prominent deer-like quadrupeds and bird-like forms.
Visual Qualities
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Patinated and Oxidized Visual · 94%
The surface shows mottled green oxidation and brown-gold areas characteristic of an aged bronze surface.
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Highly Ornamented Visual · 96%
The rectangular frame, braided borders, corner bosses, animal figures, and scrolling ornament create a densely decorated surface.
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Patterns Visual · 93%
Repeated braided bands, spirals, incised marks, and recurring rounded forms organize both the frame and the interior openwork.
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Curvilinear Forms Visual · 96%
Looping scrolls, spiral coils, rounded animal bodies, and flowing openwork contours dominate the composition.
Medium and Techniques
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Relief Visual · 87%
The animal and ornamental elements are modeled as raised bronze forms surrounding and separating open spaces, producing a relief-like openwork surface.
Time Periods
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Ancient Art Metadata · 99%
The catalog dates the belt clasp to approximately the 1st–2nd century CE, supporting its classification as ancient art.
Geographic Regions
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Middle Eastern and North African Art Metadata · 72%
The work is cataloged in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Ancient West Asian Art department. This supports a broad Middle Eastern geographic association, but does not establish a more specific place of manufacture.
Materials
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Bronze Metadata · 99%
The catalog identifies the medium as bronze.
Source & rights
Unknown artist. Belt clasp. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.