id: 124775 accession number: 1946.259 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1946.259 updated: Button, 500s. Byzantium, early Byzantine period, 6th century. Rock crystal with a garnet mounted in a gold granulated star; diameter: 3.1 cm (1 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Horace Kelley 1946.259 title: Button title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 500s creation date earliest: 500 creation date latest: 599 current location: 104 Late Antiquity creditline: Gift of Mrs. Horace Kelley copyright: --- culture: Byzantium, early Byzantine period, 6th century technique: rock crystal with a garnet mounted in a gold granulated star department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Byzantine type: Jewelry find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Diameter: 3.1 cm (1 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, MD (April 24 -June 24, 1947). --- PROVENANCE (Mrs. Paul Mallon, New York). date: footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1946- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: The decorative technique known as granulation had been used in Etruscan, Greek, and Roman jewelry well before this Byzantine piece was made. Granulation is when tiny spheres or “granules” are attached to a piece. It can be seen here in in a rock crystal button decorated with a six-pointed star, with a simply set garnet in the center. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Milliken, William M. “Byzantine Jewelry and Associated Pieces.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 34, no. 7 (1947). page number: p. 171 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141388 Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.), and Dorothy Eugenia Miner. Early Christian and Byzantine Art, An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, April 25-June 22 [1947]. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1947. page number: cat. no. 459 url: Gertsman, Elina and Barbara H. Rosenwein. The Middle Ages in 50 Objects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. page number: Mentioned: p. 110-113; Reproduced: p. 111 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1946.259/1946.259_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1946.259/1946.259_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1946.259/1946.259_full.tif