id: 97493 accession number: 1917.1059 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.1059 updated: 2021-10-27 09:00:07.332000 String of Glass Beads, AD 400s. Korea, Three Kingdoms period (57 BC-668). Glass; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1917.1059 title: String of Glass Beads title in original language: 구슬 목걸이 (瑠璃玉頸飾) series: series in original language: creation date: AD 400s creation date earliest: 400 creation date latest: 499 current location: 236 Korean creditline: Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust copyright: --- culture: Korea, Three Kingdoms period (57 BC-668) technique: glass department: Korean Art collection: Korean Art type: Jewelry find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Other Side of the Story - Korean Gallery 236 Rotation opening date: 2020-10-30T04:00:00 The Other Side of the Story - Korean Gallery 236 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 27, 2020-April 25, 2021). title: Interpretation of Materiality: Gold (Korean art rotation) opening date: 2021-04-29T04:00:00 Interpretation of Materiality: Gold (Korean art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 29-October 24, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Yamanaka and Company, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1917 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1917- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Glass, largely produced in ancient Rome since the late 1st century, also reached the Korean peninsula through the Silk Road, the ancient global trade route. The Silla people started to produce native soda glass as early as the 2nd century. digital description: An enormous amount of beaded strings and necklaces were excavated from Silla tomb sites. Glass, largely produced in ancient Rome since the late 1st century, also reached the Korean peninsula through the Silk Road, the ancient global trade route. Yet the cobalt blue glass beads shown in this string are highly likely to be soda glass produced in the Silla territory. wall description: Glass Beads 유리구슬

Largely produced in ancient Rome beginning in the late first century BC, glass reached the Korean peninsula via the Silk Road, the ancient global trade route. Yet, as early as the second century, soda glass—a type of glass consisting of about 70% silica, along with soda and small amounts of other compounds—was produced in the Silla territory. An enormous amount of beaded strings and necklaces with glass beads and comma-shaped jades were excavated from Silla period tomb sites, testifying to the ancient people’s material investment in the afterlife. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Golden Splendors: the Royal Tomb of Silla Hwangnamdaechong [황남대총: 황금의나라신라의왕릉]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 2010. page number: url: Lee, Soyoung, and Denise Patry Leidy. Silla: Korea's Golden Kingdom. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013. page number: url: Park, Jun-young. “Characteristic and Development Ancient Glass Beads in Korea [韓國 古代 琉璃구슬의 特徵과 展開樣相].” Jungang gogo yeogu 19 (2016): 71-109. page number: url: https://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE09013915 Kim, Kyu-ho. “Guseul min yuri jangsinguseoui daeoegyoryu [구슬 및 유리 장신구서의 대외교류].” Korean Traditional Costume Research Institute 8. (2018): 97-108. page number: url: http://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE07558798 Nelson, Sarah. Gyeongju: The Capital of Golden Silla. Routledge, 2019. page number: url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.1059/1917.1059_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.1059/1917.1059_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1917.1059/1917.1059_full.tif