Necklace

mid 6th-7th century (Early Medieval)

57 cm 2.6 cm 2.6 cm

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This simple but colorful necklace is composed of fifty beads, most of which are glass or ceramic, with a single amethyst bead. Similar necklaces have been found in the graves of Frankish women in the Rhineland. This necklace is one of 21 said to have been excavated at Niederbr...

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Friedrich Queckenberg, Niederbreisig (Germany), ca. 1890; Joseph Queckenberg, Niederbreisig (Germany), 1909, by inheritance; Heinrich Dreesen, Sinzig (Germany); Jacques Seligmann, Paris; J. Pierpont Morgan, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, no. 17.193.74; Sale 4629Y, Sotheby Park Bernet Inc., New York, May 29, 1981, lot. no. 25 ; Walters Art Museum, 1981, by purchase.
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