id:			125057
accession number:	1946.493
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1946.493
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Crescent-Shaped Earring, 1000–1100. Byzantium, Constantinople?, Byzantine period, 11th century. Gold filigree with cloisonné enamel; average: 2.3 x 2.6 cm (7/8 x 1 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1946.493

title:				Crescent-Shaped Earring
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creation date:			1000–1100
creation date earliest:		1000
creation date latest:		1100
current location:		104 Late Antiquity
creditline:			Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
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culture:	Byzantium, Constantinople?, Byzantine period, 11th century
technique:	gold filigree with cloisonné enamel
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Byzantine
type:		Jewelry
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measurements: Average: 2.3 x 2.6 cm (7/8 x 1 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, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art).
	date: -1946
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1946-
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CITATIONS

	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 [1947]</em>. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1947.
	page number: 	cat. no. 488
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	Milliken, William. "Byzantine Jewelry and Associated Pieces." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>34, no. 7 (September 1947): 167-175.<br><br>Published as 1715.46
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 174; Mentioned: p. 175
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141388

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