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Fatimid Jewelry

February 1, 2018

By Courtney A. Stewart

Opulent jewels in the Fatimid period were worn by both men and women, and likely served more than just an ornamental purpose.
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Connections: Jewelry

February 14, 2011

By Debbie T. Kuo

Departmental administrator Debbie Kuo, jewelry designer, talks about her favorite pieces of jewelry from The Met collection.
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Nineteenth-Century American Jewelry

October 1, 2004

By Beth Carver Wees

Like domestic silver, jewelry is both utilitarian and a distinct marker of social status.
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Turkmen Jewelry

August 1, 2011

By Department of Islamic Art

Turkmen silver jewelry carried deep symbolic meanings and often marked an individual’s passage from one stage of life to another.
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Hellenistic Jewelry

April 1, 2007

By Colette Hemingway and Séan Hemingway

A wide variety of jewelry types were produced in the Hellenistic period-earrings, necklaces, pendants, pins, bracelets, armbands, thigh bands, finger rings, wreaths, diadems, and other elaborate hair ornaments.
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Remarkable Berber Jewelry at The Met

December 4, 2017

By Courtney A. Stewart

Senior Research Assistant Courtney Stewart has been deep in The Met's storage vaults studying the Berber jewelry from Morocco and Algeria.
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Jewelry: The Body Transformed

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Jeweled Elegance

February 11, 2015

By Holly Phillips

Holly Phillips, associate manager for acquisitions in Watson Library, discusses the extensive collection of Art Deco jewelry books in the library's holdings.
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Rites of Passage in the Indian Jewelry Tradition

January 21, 2015

By Courtney A. Stewart

Senior Research Assistant Courtney A. Stewart looks at the traditional Indian jewelry used to mark important events.
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Gold Jewelry Techniques: Granulation

August 10, 2018
Watch a demonstration of a granulation technique used in gold jewelry making
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Jewelry

Date: probably 8th–12th century
Accession Number: 40.170.409

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Hooded wall clock with calendar

Clockmaker: Ahasuerus I Fromanteel (British, Norwich, England 1607–1693)

Date: ca. 1660–65
Accession Number: 1974.28.93

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Ganymede jewelry

Date: ca. 330–300 BCE
Accession Number: 37.11.8–.17

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Set of jewelry

Date: early 5th century BCE
Accession Number: 40.11.7–.18

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Disk Brooch

Date: second half 7th century
Accession Number: 17.193.90

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Pendant Brooch with Cameo of Enthroned Virgin and Child and Christ Pantokrator

Date: late 1000s–1100s (cameo); 1100s–1300s (mount)
Accession Number: 2007.9

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Jewelry Elements

Date: late 14th–16th century
Accession Number: 1989.87a–l

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Pendant with a Triton Riding a Unicorn-like Sea Creature

Reinhold Vasters (German, Erkelenz 1827–1909 Aachen)

Date: ca. 1870–95
Accession Number: 1982.60.382

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Bona Sforza (1493–1557), Queen of Poland

Cameo by Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio (Italian, Parma or Verona ca. 1500/1505–1565 Krakow (?))

Date: cameo ca. 1530–40, frame 19th century
Accession Number: 17.190.869

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Disk Brooch with Cameo

Date: ca. 600 (mount); 100–300 (cameo)
Accession Number: 95.15.101