File:Greek - Pendant Necklace - Walters 57385.jpg

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Pendant Necklace   (  )
Artist	Anonymous (Greece)Unknown author
Title	Pendant Necklace
Description	English: Made of gold, this necklace has an oval blue stone flanked by two green stones, with all three in box settings hinged and secured with toggle pins. Below is a cruciform assemblage of two garnets and two green stones, also in box settings and hinged in the same manner. The rest of the necklace, compromising pairs of green stones, garnets, and pearls, is ancient but probably did not originally belong to the centerpiece of mounted stones.
Date	late 2nd century BC (Hellenistic period era QS:P2348,Q428995 )
Medium	gold, amethyst, chalcedony, emerald, rock crystal, and pearl
Dimensions	5.3 × 40.5 × 1.3 cm (2 × 15.9 × 0.5 in); 39.6 cm (15.5 in) (l.)
Collection	Walters Art Museum    Native name Walters Art Museum Location Baltimore, United States of America Coordinates 39° 17′ 48″ N, 76° 36′ 58″ W   Established 1934  Website thewalters.org Authority file : Q210081 VIAF: 128918374 ISNI: 000000040373611X ULAN: 500279110 LCCN: no00096900 GND: 16029354-6 WorldCat institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number	57.385
Place of creation	Greece (?)
Object history	[From a tomb near Olbia, Ukraine (?)] Peter Mavrogordato, 1913 [date and mode of acquisition unknown] F. L. van Gans, Frankfurt [date and mode of acquisition unknown] Galerie Bachstitz, The Hague 1921: purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore 1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters
Exhibition history	Objects of Adornment: Five Thousand Years of Jewelry from the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa; Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis; Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota. 1984-1987. Jewelry - Ancient to Modern. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1979-1980. Jewelry from the Walters Art Museum and the Zucker Family Collection. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1987. From Alexander to Cleopatra: Greek Art of the Hellenistic Age. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1988-1989.
Credit line	Acquired by Henry Walters, 1921
Source	Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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