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Objects of gold, silver, bronze and enamel, among them an Anglo-Saxon helmet and jewel, a royal brooch, a hoard of gold and garnets, a sculptured table salt of gold, a ritual cauldron of silver and an imperial jeweled egg. A work belongs here when the cited article describes the work as metalwork, jewelry or a treasure. It excludes textiles, carpets and ceramics. The group follows the material the cited article names.

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Tara Brooch (Wikipedia)
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The Tara Brooch is an Irish Celtic brooch, dated to the late 7th or early 8th century.
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Alfred Jewel (Wikipedia)
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The Alfred Jewel is a piece of Anglo-Saxon goldsmithing work made of enamel and quartz enclosed in gold.
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Staffordshire Hoard (Wikipedia)
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The Staffordshire Hoard is the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork yet found.
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Sutton Hoo helmet (Wikipedia)
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The Sutton Hoo helmet is a decorated Anglo-Saxon helmet found during a 1939 excavation of the Sutton Hoo ship-burial.
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Cellini Salt Cellar (Wikipedia)
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The Cellini Salt Cellar (in Vienna called the Saliera, Italian for salt cellar) is a part-enamelled gold table sculpture by Benvenuto Cellini (c.1500-1571).
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Gundestrup cauldron (Wikipedia)
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The Gundestrup cauldron is a richly decorated silver vessel, thought to date from between 200 BC and 300 AD, or more narrowly between 150 BC and 1 BC.
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Trundholm Sun Chariot (Wikipedia)
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The Trundholm sun chariot (Danish: Solvognen) is a Nordic Bronze Age artifact discovered in Denmark.
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Imperial Coronation Egg (Wikipedia)
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The Imperial Coronation egg is a jewelled Fabergé egg made under the supervision of the Russian jeweller, Peter Carl Fabergé, in 1897 by Fabergé ateliers, Mikhail Perkhin and Henrik Wigstrom.
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Ardagh Chalice (Wikipedia)
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The Ardagh Hoard, best known for the Ardagh Chalice, is a hoard of metalwork from the 8th and 9th centuries.
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