Diamond-Shaped Garment Ornaments

Description Exhibitions Provenance Credit

Description In the center of the diamond-shaped gold ornaments are round settings containing garnets and enamel. Some of the stones and inlays have fallen out. On the back are tiny loops for sewing the ornaments to clothing.

Exhibitions

Jewelry - Ancient to Modern. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1979-1980.

Provenance [From a tomb near Olbia, Parutino, Ukraine]; Pharmakowski, Russia [picked up in the tomb at Olbia, shown to him by a local farmer, Philippov]; Peter Mavrogordato [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; F. L. van Gans, Frankfurt [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Galerie Bachstitz, The Hague; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1921, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1921

Download Image Add to Collection Creative Commons License

Creators

Greek (?) (Artist)
Pontic (?) (Artist)

Period

1st century BC (Hellenistic)

Medium

gold, garnet, enamel
(Gold, Silver & Jewelry)

Accession Number

57.391

Measurements

each: 7/16 x 5/8 x 1/4 in. (1.1 x 1.6 x 0.6 cm)

Geographies

Turkey (Pontos) (Place of Origin)
Greece (Place of Origin)
Ukraine, Parutino (Olbia) (Place of Discovery)

Location Within Museum

Centre Street: Second Floor: Ancient Treasury