COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
MMA_.17.190.1670-.1671
AMICA Library Year:
2001
Object Type:
Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
Creator Nationality:
Asian; Anatolian; Byzantine
Creator Name-CRT:
Byzantine
Title:
Pair of Bracelets
View:
Additional view
Creation Date:
6th-7th c.
Creation Start Date:
500
Creation End Date:
699
Materials and Techniques:
Face: top plate-gold-wrought sheet, rod; settings-pearl, sapphire; backplate-gold-wrought sheet; scribed, punched, engraved. Band: top plate-gold-wrought sheet, rod; settings-amethyst, emerald plasma, glass, quartz, pearl, sapphire (silver liners in setti
Dimensions:
D. 8.2 cm
AMICA Contributor:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location:
New York, New York, USA
ID Number:
17.190.1670-.1671
Credit Line:
Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Provenance:
Ex coll.: [Maurice Nahman, Cairo]; J. Pierpont Morgan, New York
Context:
Said to have been found near Assiût or Antinoë (Upper Egypt)
Related Image Identifier Link:
MMA_.dp30634.tif
