Object Notes

A baule or

A baule or

A baule or

A baule or

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.

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.

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 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

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).

The pure early classical features of the female heads on these Etruscan earrings relate to far larger works in stone, specifically recalling the S