id:			124775
accession number:	1946.259
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1946.259
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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

* <em>Early Christian and Byzantine Art</em>, Baltimore Museum of Art, MD (April 24 -June 24, 1947).

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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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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.
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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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