Openwork Spherical Pendant

Description Greek pendants of the 9th to the 7th century BC combined a bold, sculptural quality with a lighter, more decorative style. This pendant is said to have been excavated from a grave that dates to the 8th or 7th century BC.

Provenance Salonika, Greece; Mr. Richard Hubbard Howland, Washington, D.C., 1935, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, by gift.

Credit Gift of Richard Hubbard Howland, 1996