Greek Granulated Bead and Pearl Bracelet - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Greek Granulated Bead and Pearl Bracelet

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. The Museum’s bracelet is based on a Greek necklace (ca. 400 B.C.) found in Pantikapaion, on the north coast of the Black Sea. The original necklace features plain hollow beads alternating with ones finely decorated with granulation, a technique in which tiny grains of gold are fused to an underlying surface metal. Produced in cooperation with the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.

24K gold plate with cultured freshwater pearls. Length 7 1/2 in.

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Greek Granulated Bead and Pearl Bracelet
09-023177
Member Price: $72.00 each
Non-Member Price: $80.00 each

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