id:			126007
accession number:	1948.23
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1948.23
updated:		2019-11-18 10:22:46.674000

Buckle with Embossed Head in Profile, 400-600. Byzantium, early Byzantine period, 5th-6th Century. Gold, lapis lazuli, and glass; overall: 4.5 x 2.6 cm (1 3/4 x 1 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Grace Rainey Rogers Fund 1948.23

title:				Buckle with Embossed Head in Profile
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creation date:			400-600
creation date earliest:		400
creation date latest:		600
current location:		104 Late Antiquity
creditline:			Grace Rainey Rogers Fund
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culture:	Byzantium, early Byzantine period, 5th-6th Century
technique:	gold, lapis lazuli, and glass
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Byzantine
type:		Jewelry
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measurements: Overall: 4.5 x 2.6 cm (1 3/4 x 1 in.)
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Brooklyn, NY, 1941:"Pagan and Christian Egypt"<br>Baltimore Museum of Art, 1947: "Early Christian and Byzantine Art, cat.no.467<br>Walters Art Gallery in collaboration with Princeton University and Dumbarton Oaks Research Lib., Harvard University in "Exhibition of Gold," CMA, October 30, 1947- January 11, 1948, Gallery IX

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PROVENANCE

	reportedly found in Egypt with CMA 1948.24; (Brummer Gallery, New York).
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