id:			126020
accession number:	1948.24
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1948.24
updated:		2024-03-26 01:58:08.954000

Almond-Shaped Pendant, 400–600. Byzantium, early Byzantine period, 5th-7th Century. Gold, lapis lazuli, garnet, and glass; overall: 5.1 x 2.9 cm (2 x 1 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Grace Rainey Rogers Fund 1948.24

title:				Almond-Shaped Pendant
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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-7th Century
technique:	gold, lapis lazuli, garnet, and glass
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Byzantine
type:		Jewelry
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measurements: Overall: 5.1 x 2.9 cm (2 x 1 1/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Pagan and Christian Egypt</em>, Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY (January 23-March 9, 1941).', 'opening_date': '1941-01-23T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>Early Christian and Byzantine Art</em>, Baltimore Museum of Art, MD (April 25-June 22, 1947).', 'opening_date': '1947-04-25T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>Exhibition of Gold</em>, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 31, 1947-January 11, 1948).', 'opening_date': '1947-10-31T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	(Maurice Nahman (1868-1948), Paris, France, sold to Brummer Galleries)
	date: -1934
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	(Brummer Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art).
	date: 1931-1948
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1948-
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RELATED WORKS

	id: 		126007
	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
	relationship: 	

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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: 	no.467 a & b., Pl. LXVII
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	The Brummer Gallery Records. Cloisters (Museum), n.d.
	page number: 	P11084
	url:		https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16028coll9/id/39383

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 60
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n25

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IMAGES

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