"It's like the Byzantine bling of the present day."
Metropolitan Museum of Art department administrator Debbie Kuo, jewelry designer, talks about her favorite pieces of jewelry from The Met collection.
Connections: Jewelry
Departmental administrator Debbie Kuo, jewelry designer, talks about her favorite pieces of jewelry from The Met collection.
Debbie T. Kuo
4 min. watch
Contributor
Debbie T. Kuo
Administrator, Department of Greek and Roman Art
Administrator, Department of Greek and Roman Art
Art Mentioned
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1805–7
Attributed to Sahib Ram
ca. 1800
China
3rd century BCE
China
ca. 550–560
Greek
ca. 200 BCE
Greek, Ptolemaic
ca. 200–150 BCE
Greek
3rd–2nd century BCE
Greek
ca. 330–300 BCE
Marshallese
19th century or earlier
Maya artist(s)
200–600 CE
Sumba Island artist
19th century
Nicholas Hilliard
1597
Fra Filippo Lippi
ca. 1440
Byzantine
500–700
Designer Georges Fouquet
ca. 1923
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