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This delicate olive wreath beautifully embodies the intricate workmanship and classically refined forms of gold jewelry created in Greece during the 6th-4th centuries BCE.

DALLAS, Texas – Febraury 4, 2014 – The Dallas Museum of Art announced today that it will receive a long-term loan of one of the world’s largest private holdings of Islamic art, transforming the Museum’s Islamic art collection into the third largest of its kind in North America.

Many types of images and objects are used in Tibetan ceremonies, including thangkas (portable Tibetan religious paintings), votive bronze sculptures, small stupas, the conch shell, used as a musical instrument [2009.15.2], and the purba, or ritual dagger.

Prestige was introduced to the market in 1954 and came in four glass shapes--cocktail, juice, old fashioned, and highball. Each type of glass was sold by the dozen in prepackaged sets or in a sixteen-piece "tumbler set" that contained four of each variety.

This pair of Etruscan a grappolo earrings represents a late version of the same earring type as another pair in the Dallas Museum of Art's collection (1966.25.a-b), featuring a

A grappolo, or "grape" pendant earrings, sometimes also called leech-type earrings, consist of a central leech form surmounted by a horseshoe-shaped plaque with a grape-like ornament below as a rigid pendant.

This pair of earrings represents a smaller, variant version of another pair in the Dallas Museum of Art's collection (1991.75.29.a-b).