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Valentine's Gift ListByzantine Necklace
5th-6th Century AD
Gold
Consisting of seventeen irregularly shaped, predominantly oval amethyst beads interspersed with gold links. The clasp is composed of cast gold openwork roundels with a border of filigree work, terminating in gold hook and eye fastening. Intact, some of the gold restored.
Amethyst was a particularly popular material during the Byzantine period.
Provenance
Private collection, UK; acquired c.1980
Private collection, York, UK
Literature
Compare Chris Entwistle and Noël Adams (eds.), Intelligible Beauty, ‘Byzantine Jewellery? Amethyst Beads in East and West during the Early Byzantine Period’ (London, 2010), p.52, pl.1: Washington DC, Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Inv. no. 59.61. Also an example at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA, accession number 17.190.1663
Dimensions
Length 52.8cmStock number
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