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Straight Pin
The collection record classifies this work as jewelry. It is dated c. 500 BCE. Recorded culture or place: Etruscan.
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- Museum title
- Straight Pin
- Date
- c. 500 BCE
- Culture / origin
- Etruscan
- Materials and technique
- gold and glass
- Dimensions
- Overall: 6.4 cm (2 1/2 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1978.25
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
This gold straight pin is topped with a red glass bead set in a finial. Braided gold wire and granulated triangles surround the bead. Tiny spheres forming more triangles decorate the underside of the finial, some perhaps lost. The pin is gently twisted below the finial. Although it appears to be garnet, the bead in this pin was determined to be glass after close examination by two gemologists from the Natural History Museum.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Max Ratner · CC0
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