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| Keywords: Byzantine - Earring - Walters 571729.jpg Annular earring with three pendants of plaited chains to each of which is attached a croix patee of hollow gold the front ornamented with repousse featherings and a central cell holding green vitreous paste; below each cross is suspended an amethyst drop One cross and one amethyst may be restorations Hoop earrings with suspended gemstones were worn by women throughout the Byzantine Empire This unusually fine example has woven loop-in-loop chains linked to small gold crosses indicating that it was made for a Christian woman century 6 Late Antique gold amethysts and enamel cm 9 7 3 7 0 6 accession number 57 1729 13743 Amin Khawam Cairo by purchase Dikran Kelekian New York and Paris by purchase Henry Walters New York date of acquisition unknown by purchase Sadie Jones Mrs Henry Walters New York 1931 by inheritance Sale Parke-Bernet New York November 30 1943 no 519 Walters Art Museum 1943 by purchase Museum purchase with funds provided by the S A P Fund formerly part of the Walters Collection 1943 Objects of Adornment Five Thousand Years of Jewelry from the Walters Art Gallery Baltimore Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum New York; Chrysler Museum of Art Norfolk; Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh; San Antonio Museum of Art San Antonio; Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa; Honolulu Academy of Arts Honolulu; New Orleans Museum of Art New Orleans; Milwaukee Art Museum Milwaukee; Minneapolis Institute of Arts Minneapolis; Toledo Museum of Art Toledo; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Sarasota 1984-1987 Jewelry from the Walters Art Museum and the Zucker Family Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1987 Early Christian and Byzantine Art Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1947 Exhibition of Gold The Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland 1947-1948 Jewelry - Ancient to Modern The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1979-1980 place of origin Greece Walters Art Museum license Ancient Roman art in the Walters Art Museum Byzantine and Early Russian art in the Walters Art Museum Jewellery in the Walters Art Museum Byzantine earrings Crosses in jewellery | ||||
