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accession number: 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
* {'description': 'Early Christian and Byzantine Art, 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.” 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
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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
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