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Necklace
The collection record classifies this work as jewelry. It is dated 100s BCE. Recorded culture or place: Greece.
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- Museum title
- Necklace
- Date
- 100s BCE
- Culture / origin
- Greece
- Materials and technique
- gold, moonstone, garnet, emerald, cornelian, baroque pearl, and banded agate
- Dimensions
- Overall: 39.4 cm (15 1/2 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1928.234
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
Alternating semiprecious stones and granulated gold beads come together to form this magnificent necklace, capped with a gold clasp framed by banded agate cabochons. The pendant portion of this necklace is centered around a large translucent moonstone in a gold setting, framed by smaller garnet ovals, also set in gold. Two tiny gold lynx heads clasp the garnet settings in their mouths. Small baroque (nonspherical) pearls dangle from these central settings. The combination of multiple precious and semiprecious stones with complex goldwork suggests that this necklace was originally made in one of the Greek kingdoms in the Black Sea region.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of Mrs. John L. Severance · CC0
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