1991.75.89, Necklace, Greece, 1st century B.C.E., gold, gilded glass


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This Hellenistic Greek necklace is composed of globular beads and amphora-shaped pendants, alternately arranged. Both the beads and the pendants are made from gilded glass. Cylindrical tubes constructed from ribbed sheet gold are used as finials. Like Archaic Greek necklaces, composed Hellenistic necklaces were usually strung on perishable strings. For this reason, the proper arrangement of the different elements is often uncertain.

Adapted from
  • Barbara Deppert-Lippitz, Ancient Gold Jewelry at the Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art in association with the University of Washington Press, 1996), 138.
  • DMA unpublished material.

NOTES
  • DMA unpublished material = curatorial remarks
  • updated provenance
  • updated geo x refs
  • added publication as a text entry

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Until 1989: probably Collection of Dr. Athos Moretti, Switzerland [1]

1989-1991: Collection of Robert Haber, New York, New York [2]

From 1991: Dallas Museum of Art, The Eugene and Margaret McDermott Art Fund, Inc.

[1] based on existing provenance entry in TMS
[2] See printed email exchange between Andrew Oliver and Anne Bromberg, dated August 3, 2012, found in Collections Record Object file 1991.75.53

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This Hellenistic Greek necklace is composed of globular beads and amphora-shaped pendants, alternately arranged. Both the beads and the pendants are made from gilded glass. Cylindrical tubes constructed from ribbed sheet gold are used as finials. Like Archaic Greek necklaces, composed Hellenistic necklaces were usually strung on perishable strings. For this reason, the proper arrangement of the different elements is often uncertain.

Adapted from
  • Barbara Deppert-Lippitz, Ancient Gold Jewelry at the Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art in association with the University of Washington Press, 1996), 138.
  • DMA unpublished material.

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Notes
  • DMA unpublished material = curatorial remarks
  • updated provenance
  • updated geo x refs
  • added publication as a text entry

Cultures

Geography 

Process/materials

Historical periods

Individuals

Subject terms

RELATED OBJECTS 

PROVENANCE 
Until 1989: probably Collection of Dr. Athos Moretti, Switzerland [1]

1989-1991: Collection of Robert Haber, New York, New York [2]

From 1991: Dallas Museum of Art, The Eugene and Margaret McDermott Art Fund, Inc.

[1] based on existing provenance entry in TMS
[2] See printed email exchange between Andrew Oliver and Anne Bromberg, dated August 3, 2012, found in Collections Record Object file 1991.75.53

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necklaces: AAT: 300046001
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jewelry: AAT: 300209286
glass (material): AAT: 300010797
metalwork: AAT: 300015336
goldwork: AAT: 300044045
gold (metal): AAT: 300011021
metalworking: AAT: 300053946
Greece_Ancient: TGN: 7594735
gilding (material): AAT: 300379350
ancient (style and period): AAT: 300106711
beads (pierced objects): AAT: 300234006
amphorae (storage vessels): AAT: 300148696
Ancient Greek (culture or style): AAT: 300020072
Hellenistic (Ancient Greek culture or style): AAT: 300020101
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