id: 97493
accession number: 1917.1059
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url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.1059
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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)
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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
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culture: Korea, Three Kingdoms period (57 BC-668)
technique: glass
department: Korean Art
collection: Korean Art
type: Jewelry
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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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
(Yamanaka and Company, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?-1917
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1917-
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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.
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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.
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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.
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CITATIONS
Golden Splendors: the Royal Tomb of Silla Hwangnamdaechong [황남대총: 황금의나라신라의왕릉]. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 2010.
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Lee, Soyoung, and Denise Patry Leidy. Silla: Korea's Golden Kingdom. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013.
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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.
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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.
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url: http://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE07558798
Nelson, Sarah. Gyeongju: The Capital of Golden Silla. Routledge, 2019.
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