Detail View: The AMICA Library: Pair of Bracelets

AMICA ID: 
MMA_.17.190.148-.149
AMICA Library Year: 
2001
Object Type: 
Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
Creator Nationality: 
Asian; Anatolian; Byzantine
Creator Name-CRT: 
Byzantine, possibly made in Constantinople
Title: 
Pair of Bracelets
View: 
Additional view
Creation Date: 
Late 6th-early 7th c.
Creation Start Date: 
566
Creation End Date: 
633
Materials and Techniques: 
Face, band: gold-wrought sheet, rod; engraved; wire-plain, beaded; granulation; strip-triangular sectioned.
Creation Place: 
possibly Constantinople
Dimensions: 
D. 6 cm, 5.9 cm
AMICA Contributor: 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location: 
New York, New York, USA
ID Number: 
17.190.148-.149
Credit Line: 
Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Rights: 
Provenance: 
Ex coll.: [Amedeo Canessa, Paris]; J. Pierpont Morgan, New York
Context: 
From Karavás, Cyprus in 1902 (known as the Second Cyprus Treasure)
Related Image Identifier Link: 
MMA_.dp30626.tif