RARE BOW BROOCH - former Kofler-Truniger collection Slavic, 7th century AD. Gilt bronze. Semicircular head plate with seven fan-shaped ribbed palmettes above a wedge-shaped base plate, with rich notch carving and with bird heads with blue glass flow on the sides and three human masks at the brooch base. 12.5 × 7 cm. Gilding rubbed. Metal overlays with glass flow partly missing. Pin missing. Provenance: - Collection of Ernst and Marthe Kofler-Truniger (1918–1999 & 1918–1999), Lucerne before 1960 (inv. no. K 8047 AI). - Swiss private collection, Lucerne, acquired from the above in ca. 1974. - By inheritance in the same Swiss family collection, Lucerne. Exhibited: Kunsthaus Zurich, Collection E. and M. Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne, June 7–August 2, 1964, No. 615 (with exhibition catalog). Literature: - J. Werner: Neues zur Frage der slawischen Bügelfibeln (New findings on Slavic bow brooches). In: Germania 38. Munich 1960, fig. 1, plate 28; fig. 2, plate 29. - Kunsthaus Zurich (ed.): Collection E. and M. Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne. Exhibition catalog, June 7–August 2, 1964, p. 64, No. 615, plate 45. The brooch on offer is of a type that belongs to an interesting group of related bronze mask brooches from the late 6th and 7th centuries found in the Balkan countries. J. Werner presented these brooches of the so-called “Sparta-Linkuhnen-Cosovenii” type in 1960 (Germania 38), including an illustration of the brooch on offer from the Kofler-Truninger Collection. Comparisons can be found, among others, in the Diergardt Collection in Cologne (Germania plate 28.2) and in the Stockholm Museum (Germania plate 28.3). * The full tax is charged on this item marked *, i.e. VAT is charged on the sum will be refunded to Purchasers providing a validly stamped export declaration.