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Enamelled bronze harness-stud. 2nd century A.D.

Large elaborately enamelled stud. The enamel is contained within four concentric bands of metal. The outer circle is of a deep-blue with forty-three delicate springs of a pure white. The second circle of the enamel has a background of a bright red with thirty-nine squares of three by three white and blue chequerboard pattern; the ground of the third circle is blue and contains twenty-eight flowers with white petals around a white dot within a red circle. The central panel is filled by some forty-five distorted squares, alternating between three by three white and blue chequerboard pattern within a red frame, and five by five white and blue chequerboard pattern within a blue frame.