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Necklace
The collection record classifies this work as jewelry. It is dated c. 1775–95. Recorded culture or place: England or France.
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- Museum title
- Necklace
- Date
- c. 1775–95
- Culture / origin
- England or France
- Materials and technique
- gold, silver, and brilliants
- Dimensions
- Part 1: 29.6 cm (11 5/8 in.); Part 2: 12.1 cm (4 3/4 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1964.35
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
Throughout the 1700s, the growing trade for personal luxury objects transformed the material culture surrounding marriage and courtship. Gifts such as perfume, sheet music, books, textiles, portrait miniatures, and jewelry often demonstrated the status of the gift giver and their investment in the relationship. While intended to be seen and admired, this glittering and ostentatious necklace disguised a system based on the labor and suffering of enslaved or indentured people, whether in gold and stone mines or the shop where it was made.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of Mrs. Severance A. Millikin · CC0
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