{"data": {"id": 125583, "accession_number": "1947.504", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Fibula (Pin), 400\u2013200 BCE. South Italy, Campania. Gold; overall: 8 cm (3 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1947.504", "current_location": "102D Pre-Roman", "title": "Fibula (Pin)", "creation_date": "400\u2013200 BCE", "creation_date_earliest": -400, "creation_date_latest": -200, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["South Italy, Campania"], "technique": "gold", "support_materials": [], "department": "Greek and Roman Art", "collection": "GR - Greek", "type": "Jewelry", "measurements": "Overall: 8 cm (3 1/8 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"length": 0.08, "length_inch": 3, "length_inch_fraction": 0.125}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 301160, "title": "Jewelry Techniques Past and Present", "description": "<i>Jewelry Techniques Past and Present</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 3-April 4, 1956).", "opening_date": "1956-02-03T05:00:00"}, {"id": 515880, "title": "Greek Gold: Jewelry from the Age of Alexander", "description": "<i>Greek Gold: Jewelry from the Age of Alexander</i>. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (organizer) (November 22, 1965-January 2, 1966); The Brooklyn Museum (January 20-March 9, 1966); Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (March 28-May 1, 1966).", "opening_date": "1965-11-18T05:00:00"}, {"id": 444657, "title": "Echoes from Olympus: Reflections of Divinity in Small-Scale Classical Art", "description": "<i>Echoes from Olympus: Reflections of Divinity in Small-Scale Classical Art</i>. University of California, Berkeley. University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA (organizer) (August 15-December 15, 1974).", "opening_date": "1974-08-15T04:00:00"}], "legacy": [{"description": "<em>Exhibition of Jewellery. </em>Portland Art Museum (November 21 - December 28, 1952).", "opening_date": "1952-11-21T00:00:00"}, {"description": "<em>Greek Gold: Jewelry from the Age of Alexander</em>. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Nov. 18, 1965-Jan. 2, 1966); The Brooklyn Museum, New York (Jan. 19-Feb. 28, 1966); Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond (March-May 1966).", "opening_date": "1966-01-19T00:00:00"}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "Dr. Arnold Ruesch, Switzerland", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "Before 1936", "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "(Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, Switzerland, September 1, 1936, Cat. 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An enormous leech-shaped bow and pin form the body of the fibula. A band of rosettes adorns the center of the bow. Above the bow, a gold plaque is adorned with an eight-petaled flower and palmette filigree. A gold bead, perhaps representing a pomegranate, tops the plaque. The bead is crowned with oblong petals and sprouting leaves.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60779311"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1947.504-fibula-pin"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Galerie Fischer. Griechische, etruskische und ro\u0308mische Altertu\u0308mer: Vasen, Terrakotten, Bronzen (Ausgrabungen von Boscoreale), Silberfund, Gla\u0308ser, Waffen, pompejanische Fresken, Schmuck, Mumienportra\u0308t, Goldmu\u0308nzen; Marmorfiguren und Reliefs (Venus Anadyomene; Alexander-Schlactrelief usw.); ro\u0308mische Tische, Sarkophag und anderes antikes Kunstgewerbe. 1936.", "page_number": "Cat. No. 347", "url": null}, {"citation": "The Brummer Gallery Records. Cloisters (Museum), n.d.", "page_number": "N4861", "url": "https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16028coll9/id/15793"}, {"citation": "Neugass, Fritz. \"Kostbarer Schmuck der Alexandreneschen Zeit,\" <em>Die Weltkunst </em>(January 15, 1966).", "page_number": "p. 46", "url": null}, {"citation": "Milliken, William M. \"Exhibition of Gold.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 34, no. 9 (1947).", "page_number": "p. 219", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141408"}, {"citation": "Wunderlich, Silvia A. \"A Gold Fibula.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 35, no. 6 (1948).", "page_number": "pp. 104-106", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141469"}, {"citation": "Milliken, William M. \"The Art of the Goldsmith,\" <em>Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism </em>Vol. VI, No. 4 (June 1948).", "page_number": "p. 313, fig. 2", "url": null}, {"citation": "Wunderlich, Silvia. \"A Gold Fibula,\" <em>The Art Quarterly </em>(Autumn 1948).", "page_number": "p. 370 & 373", "url": null}, {"citation": "<em>Gems and Geology </em>(Summer 1949).", "page_number": "Cover", "url": null}, {"citation": "Hoffmann, Herbert, and Patricia F. Davidson. <em>Greek Gold; Jewelry from the Age of Alexander</em>. 1965.", "page_number": "p. 204, No. 80", "url": null}, {"citation": "Kozloff, Arielle P. <em>Classical Art: A Brief Guide to the Collection, the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. [Cleveland]: The Museum, 1989.", "page_number": "p. 14", "url": null}, {"citation": "Pfrommer, Michael.<em> Untersuchungen zur Chronologie fru\u0308h- und hochhellenistischen Goldschmucks</em>. Tu\u0308bingen: E. Wasmuth, 1990.", "page_number": "p. 222, no. 1544, p. 424", "url": null}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. 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