id:			124775
accession number:	1946.259
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1946.259
updated:		2025-02-09 01:11:22.182000

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
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creation date:			500s
creation date earliest:		500
creation date latest:		599
current location:		104 Late Antiquity
creditline:			Gift of Mrs. Horace Kelley
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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
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measurements: Diameter: 3.1 cm (1 1/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Early Christian and Byzantine Art</em>, Baltimore Museum of Art, MD (April 24 -June 24, 1947).', 'opening_date': '1947-04-24T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	(Mrs. Paul Mallon, New York).
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1946-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Milliken, William M. “Byzantine Jewelry and Associated Pieces.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 34, no. 7 (1947).
	page number: 	p. 171
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141388

	Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.), and Dorothy Eugenia Miner. <em>Early Christian and Byzantine Art, An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, April 25-June 22</em> [1947]. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1947.
	page number: 	cat. no. 459
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	Gertsman, Elina and Barbara H. Rosenwein. <em>The Middle Ages in 50 Objects</em>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 110-113; Reproduced: p. 111
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