The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 16, 2026

A gold clasp features two back-to-back, four-legged creatures with heads turned forward. A four-petaled shape sits between their heads, while curling lines and small spheres form scrolling patterns along the base. The animals exhibit fine, etched textures and rounded hips at the outer edges. On the right, a thin metal loop extends from the side. Short, flat supports protrude from the rectangular underside of the object.

Repoussé Gold Clasp

1200s

Europe, 13th century

repousé gold
Average: 7.7 cm (3 1/16 in.)
Grace Rainey Rogers Fund 1948.19
Location: Not on view
  • 1908
    Sir Wyndham Francis Cook
    -1/17/1940
    (International Studio Art Corp., sold to Joseph Brummer Gallery)
    1940-1/16/1948
    (Joseph Brummer Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1948-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Smith, Cecil Harcourt-, and Caroline Amy Hutton. Catalogue of the Antiquities (Greek, Etruscan and Roman) in the Collection of the Late Wyndham Francis Cook. London: Printed by Metchim for private circulation, 1908. II, no. 26 plate XX II, p.92
    Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.), and Dorothy Eugenia Miner. Early Christian and Byzantine Art, An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, April 25-June 22 [1947]. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1947. no. 467
    The Brummer Gallery Records. Cloisters (Museum), n.d. N4695 libmma.contentdm.oclc.org
  • Exhibition of Gold, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 31, 1947-January 11, 1948).
    Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, MD (April 25-June 22, 1947).
  • {{cite web|title=Repoussé Gold Clasp|url=false|author=|year=1200s|access-date=16 April 2026|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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