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Greek Filigree Wire Bangle

ENLARGE

Jewelry played an essential role in ancient Greek life, ritual, and death. Artistic representations of daily activities, as well as literary accounts of historical events, reveal how fashionable Greeks used jewelry to display wealth and prestige. People offered jewelry as gifts to the gods at turning points in their lives and bestowed it in celebrations of marriage and birth. Jewelry also accompanied people in death. The deceased could be buried wearing favorite pieces, or funerary adornments might be made especially for entombment. While often colorfully enameled, classical Greek jewelry, unlike that of the Egyptians or Romans, tended to exclude gemstones; and though most surviving examples are of gold, less precious pieces in silver and bronze were probably more commonplace. Gold filigree techniques blossomed in the ancient Greek cities of the North Pontic region and Asia Minor between the 6th and 3rd centuries B.C. The jeweler built up patterns from the surface in gold wire, joined with matching solder, to achieve exquisite detail. Our bangle is based on a filigree design on a small, gold pediment-shaped brooch from 340–320 B.C., said to be from Patras, a major port city in Greece.

24K gold plate. Inner circumference 8 3/4 in.; width 1/2 in.

Greek Filigree Wire Bangle
09-085051
Member Price: $90.00 each
Non-Member Price: $100.00 each

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