# Hen with 7 chicks

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-goldsmith-italian-r6f3ba2c423700e/hen-with-7-chicks-r94d4227a7001dc>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [UNKNOWN GOLDSMITH, Italian](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-goldsmith-italian-r6f3ba2c423700e>)
- Date: 0601-0650
- Technique: Gold

## Commentary

The museum in Monza is famous for having ancient works of the late Roman period and early Middle Ages, such as the ornaments donated by the Queen of the Lombards Teodolinda \(d. ca. 627\). The present object is one of them.

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- [Cross of Desiderius \(back\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-goldsmith-italian-r6f3ba2c423700e/cross-of-desiderius-back-r44dd181d26dbd1>)
- [Cross of Desiderius \(front\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-goldsmith-italian-r6f3ba2c423700e/cross-of-desiderius-front-rc4c2fe5720fc57>)
- [Cross of Desiderius \(front\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-goldsmith-italian-r6f3ba2c423700e/cross-of-desiderius-front-rf3cb56d021dc67>)
- [Cross of Desiderius](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-goldsmith-italian-r6f3ba2c423700e/cross-of-desiderius-r38035ce877c4bf>)
- [Cup](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-goldsmith-italian-r6f3ba2c423700e/cup-rc170005315fd1d>)
- [Cup](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-goldsmith-italian-r6f3ba2c423700e/cup-rc5ce43ab08c0ca>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)