Connections: Jewelry

Departmental administrator Debbie Kuo, jewelry designer, talks about her favorite pieces of jewelry from The Met collection.

"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.


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Debbie T. Kuo
Administrator, Department of Greek and Roman Art

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Osage Warrior, Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin  French, Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper, American
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1805–7
Head of Krishna: cartoon for a mural of the Raslila 

, Sahib Ram, Ink and opaque watercolor on paper, India (Rajasthan, Jaipur)
Sahib Ram
ca. 1800
Knotted dragon pendant, Jade (nephrite), China
China
3rd century BCE
Bodhisattva, probably Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin), Sandstone with pigment, China
China
ca. 550–560
Pair of gold armbands, Gold, Greek
Greek
ca. 200 BCE
Gold openwork hairnet with medallion, Gold, Greek, Ptolemaic
Greek, Ptolemaic
ca. 200–150 BCE
Pair of gold earrings with an Egyptian Atef crown set with stones and glass, Gold with stone and glass, Greek
Greek
3rd–2nd century BCE
Ganymede jewelry, Gold, rock crystal, emerald, Greek
Greek
ca. 330–300 BCE
Fragment of a Pendant (Marremarre Lagelag or Buni), Tridacna shell, Marshallese
Marshallese
19th century or earlier
Pair of earflare frontals, Maya artist(s), Jade (jadeite), Maya
Maya artist(s)
200–600 CE
Mamuli (ear ornament or pendant), Sumba Island artist, Gold, Sumba Island
Sumba Island artist
19th century
Portrait of a Woman, Nicholas Hilliard  British, Vellum
Nicholas Hilliard
1597
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement, Fra Filippo Lippi  Italian, Tempera on wood
Fra Filippo Lippi
ca. 1440
Jeweled Bracelet (one of pair), Gold, silver, pearl, amethyst, sapphire, opal, glass, quartz, emerald plasma, Byzantine
Byzantine
500–700
Dress ornament, Georges Fouquet  French, Jade, onyx, diamonds, enamel, platinum
Georges Fouquet
ca. 1923