Necklace with Pendants
500s
Maker Unknown
Medieval Art
Necklace with Pendants, 500s. Byzantium, Constantinople?, early Byzantine period, 6th century. Gold, garnets; part 1: 56.5 cm (22 1/4 in.); part 2: 4.5 x 3.1 x 1.6 cm (1 3/4 x 1 1/4 x 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1954.3 Just as some of us wear jewelry associated with our particular faith, the original owner of this necklace proudly wore this cross a symbol of their Christian beliefs.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Metalwork
- Formatted Medium
- gold, garnets
- Dimensions
- Part 1: 56.5 cm (22 1/4 in.); Part 2: 4.5 x 3.1 x 1.6 cm (1 3/4 x 1 1/4 x 5/8 in.)
- Departments
- Medieval Art
- Accession Number
- 1954.3
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe, CMA, October 17, 2010 - January 17, 2011, Walters Art Museum February 13 - May 15, 2011, British Museum June 23 - October 9, 2011: "Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe," cat no.26.<br>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
- 104 Late Antiquity
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