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Connections: Jewelry

Departmental administrator Debbie Kuo, jewelry designer, talks about her favorite pieces of jewelry from The Met collection.
Debbie T. Kuo
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"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
Osage Warrior
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)

Head of Krishna: cartoon for a mural of the Raslila

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