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| Keywords: Ostrogothic - Polyhedral Beads - Walters 571746 - View A.jpg These ten beads were probably part of a woman's necklace They are made of thin sheet gold that was cut and folded around a core of pitch pine resin Slices of garnet backed with foil to enhance their brilliance were inserted into the pitch between the gold frames This technique of combining gold and foil-backed garnets is characteristic of the Goths of South Russia century 5 Early Medieval gold with garnets over pitch cm 3 4 9 1 3 accession number 57 1746 21359 Joseph Chmielowski Ochakov Ukraine Joseph Chmielowski Sale Amercian Art Gallery New York February 23-25 1922 lot 710 Henry Walters New York date of acquisition unknown by purchase Sadie Jones Mrs Henry Walters New York 1931 by inheritance Mrs Henry Walters Sale New York December 1-4 1943 lot 537 The Hammer Galleries New York date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum September 19 1945 by purchase Museum purchase with funds provided by the S A P Fund 1945 Early Christian and Byzantine Art Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1947 Romans and Barbarians Museum of Fine Arts Boston Boston 1976-1977 Jewelry - Ancient to Modern The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1979-1980 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 place of origin Russia Walters Art Museum license Medieval metalwork in the Walters Art Museum Jewellery in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Ostrogothic jewellery | ||||
