A substantial gold mount possibly from a shield, with beaded wire rim, attachment pins, central rosette of raised cells with meerschaum, turquoise and garnet inlay.

PROVENANCE:
Acquired in London 1999; formerly in the collection of Mr L. Grenacs, Belgium, formed in 1975.

LITERATURE:
See Arrhenius, B., Merovingian Garnet Jewellery, Stockholm, 1985, for discussion; and for a similar corpus, cf. Wieczorek, A. and Perin, P., Das Gold der Barbarenfursten, Damstadt, 2001.