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Earring
The collection record classifies this work as jewelry. It is dated 1200s. Recorded culture or place: Cambodia.
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- Museum title
- Earring
- Date
- 1200s
- Culture / origin
- Cambodia
- Materials and technique
- bronze
- Dimensions
- Overall: 6.4 x 3.7 cm (2 1/2 x 1 7/16 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1984.63
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
This pair of earrings is in the form of naga, or water serpent, one of the most popular decorative motifs in Cambodian art. While bronze objects such as furniture and palanquin fittings and finials, hooks, rings, etc., were among the most typical items of the classical Angkorean art (12th–13th century), jewelry is very rare. Originally they must have been gilt. It is conceivable that the present pair may not have been used as a regular ear ornament but enhanced a Khmer sculpture, a common practice, which would explain their heavy weight and large size.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund · CC0
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