Tab (600s): Art, History and Details
Tab at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 600s, iron with silver overlay. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Tab (600s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
This tab would have been attached to a strip of leather worn around the waist. It was likely both an ornamental statement indicating social rank and a practical accessory. The decorative inlay was applied by forcing silver wire into a pattern engraved into the iron. The condition of the tab indicates that it was likely excavated, perhaps from a grave.
Object facts
- Title: Tab
- Date: 600s
- Culture: Frankish, Migration period
- Type: Jewelry
- Technique: iron with silver overlay
- Dimensions: Overall: 9.1 x 5.8 cm (3 9/16 x 2 5/16 in.)
- Collection: MED - Migration Period
- Department: Medieval Art
- Accession number: 1919.1009.b
Collection credit
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
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See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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