Two examples of the silver-inlay technique mastered by merovingian artists.

Later wrongly called "damasquinure" or "Silbertauschierung" by renaissance humanists who believed that this technique was not known in Europe before the Crusades (as reference to Damascus), the use of silver or brass wires inlaid on the surface of iron elements to create ornamentation requires high precision skills.

The ornamentation mirrors the style of moulded bronze elements of the same period.

  Period : Merovingian, VI-VII th. century A.D.
  Production : Northern France (buckle-plate) and West Germany (strap-end)

  Material : Silver-inlay on iron
  Length : B.P. : 5,8 cm - S.E. : 5 cm.

  Equivalent / Litterature : Identical artefact in Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte –
  Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Inv. N. Ii 112 a,b.

  Ref. : M-001

      Price & Condition : Euros 600 -