Jewelry
The array of exquisite jewelry at the Walters Art Museum represents an enormous range of periods, regions, artistic and stylistic developments and materials. The collection includes many pieces purchased by Henry Walters, as well as extensive donations by museum supporters including Henry Walters’ niece Laura Delano and New York gemologist Benjamin Zucker.
Signature objects include a magnificent pair of gold bracelets encrusted with precious stones and multicolored enamel inlay discovered in a tomb in Olbia, in present-day Ukrane, and dating to the 1st century B.C.; a pair of eagle fibulae from 6th-century Visigothic Spain; and an iris corsage ornament by Tiffany & Co. decorated with 139 sapphires and other gems that was a grand prize winner at the 1900 Paris Exposition universelle.
The array of exquisite jewelry at the Walters Art Museum represents an enormous range of periods, regions, artistic and stylistic developments and materials. The collection includes many pieces purchased by Henry Walters, as well as extensive donations by museum supporters including Henry Walters’ niece Laura Delano and New York gemologist Benjamin Zucker.
Signature objects include a magnificent pair of gold bracelets encrusted with precious stones and multicolored enamel inlay discovered in a tomb in Olbia, in present-day Ukrane, and dating to the 1st century B.C.; a pair of eagle fibulae from 6th-century Visigothic Spain; and an iris corsage ornament by Tiffany & Co. decorated with 139 sapphires and other gems that was a grand prize winner at the 1900 Paris Exposition universelle.
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This exquisitely illustrated book presents a wonderful selection of jewelry dating from the 2nd millennium B.C. to the early 20th century from the collection of The Walters Art Museum.
learn more![Image for Scarab with Herakles Holding a Club and a Bow Set in a Swivel Ring](https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/thumbnails/PS1_42.158_Back_DD_T08.jpg)
Scarab with Herakles Holding a Club and a Bow Set in a Swivel Ring
![Image for Scarab or Scaraboid Intaglio with a Griffin Set in a Swivel Ring](https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/thumbnails/PL2_42.124_Fnt_BW_H60.jpg)
Scarab or Scaraboid Intaglio with a Griffin Set in a Swivel Ring
![Image for Scarab Carved in Intaglio with a Pig-Man](https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/thumbnails/PS1_42.847_Back_DD_T08.jpg)
Scarab Carved in Intaglio with a Pig-Man
![Image for Pair of Earrings with Cow Heads](https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/thumbnails/PS1_57.589-590_3Qtr_DD_T07.jpg)
Pair of Earrings with Cow Heads
![Image for Pair of Etruscan "Bullae"](https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/thumbnails/PL1_57.574-57.1950_Gp_TR_C79III.jpg)
Pair of Etruscan "Bullae"
![Image for Scarab with Herakles Holding the Apples of the Hesperides](https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/thumbnails/PS1_42.486_Bot_DD_T08.jpg)
Scarab with Herakles Holding the Apples of the Hesperides
![Image for Scarab with Reclining Herakles Set in a Swivel Ring](https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/thumbnails/PS1_42.494_Back_DD_T08.jpg)
Scarab with Reclining Herakles Set in a Swivel Ring
![Image for Intaglio with Oedipus and the Sphinx Set in a Ring](https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/thumbnails/PS1_42.465_Fnt_DD_T08.jpg)
Intaglio with Oedipus and the Sphinx Set in a Ring
![Image for Earring with Lion-Griffin Head](https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/thumbnails/RS423135_PS4_57.1732_DD_AT19_3590%203-hpr%20(1).jpg)
Earring with Lion-Griffin Head
![Image for Pendant, Horus the Child Seated](https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/thumbnails/CUR_57.1420_Fnt_DD_RS2009.jpg)