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Necklace
While the gold, blue faience, and carnelian beads interspersed with 11 amulets and thin gold spacers decorated with granulation are genuine, their arrangement in this necklace is a modern reconstruction. The variety of materials used highlights the wealth of resources, both local and imported, available to Egyptian craftsmen. Represented are gods, animals (or parts of them), and plants, all of which were believed to possess protective powers.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 2010 | Bedazzled: 5,000 Years of Jewelry. El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso. |
| 2006-2009 | Bedazzled: 5,000 Years of Jewelry from the Walters Art Museum. Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota; The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. |
| 1984-1987 | 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 Art, Minneapolis; Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota. |
| 1987 | Jewelry from the Walters Art Gallery and the Zucker Family Collection. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
| 1979-1980 | Jewelry - Ancient to Modern. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
Conservation
| Date | Description | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
| 10/8/1974 | Treatment | cleaned |
| 10/19/1978 | Examination | examined for condition |
| 3/21/1984 | Treatment | cleaned |
Geographies
Egypt (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Overall H: 3/16 (0.45 x 0.05 cm)
Overall H: 3/16 (0.45 x 0.01 cm)
Overall H: 1/16 (0.13 x 0.01 cm)
Overall H: 0.01 cm
Overall H: 1/16 (0.17 x 0.01 cm)
Overall H: 0.02 x W: 0.02 cm
Overall H: 3/16 x W: 1/16 in. (0.52 x 0.08 cm)
Overall H: 1/16 in. (0.17 cm)
Overall H: 1/16 (0.08 x 0.01 cm)
Overall H: 1/4 (0.59 x 0.05 cm)
Overall H: 3/16 x W: 1/16 in. (0.45 x 0.09 cm)
Other (gold bead diam.) : 0.01 cm
Other (carnelian bead diam.) : 0.01 cm
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
57.1516