Mounted Rock Crystal
500s-600s
Maker Unknown
Medieval Art
Mounted Rock Crystal, 500s-600s. Byzantium, Byzantine period, 6th-7th centuries. Gold, quartz, almandine; overall: 10.2 x 1.9 x 1.6 cm (4 x 3/4 x 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1953.640
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Metalwork
- Formatted Medium
- gold, quartz, almandine
- Dimensions
- Overall: 10.2 x 1.9 x 1.6 cm (4 x 3/4 x 5/8 in.)
- Departments
- Medieval Art
- Accession Number
- 1953.640
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Bavarian Nationalmuseum, Munich (5/10/2007 - 9/16/2007), the J. Paul Getty Musuem, Los Angeles (10/30/2007 - 1/20/2008) and Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN (2/13/2009 - 6/7/2009): "Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art"
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 105 Byzantine
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