Necklace with Composite Creature
AD 700-1520 (Period V–VI)
Necklace L: 23 13/16 in. (60.5 cm); Pendant H: 3 7/16 x W: 2 11/16 x D: 13/16 in. (8.8 x 6.9 x 2 cm)
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Sometime after 500 CE, gold became the preferred material for fashioning personal adornments, supplanting jadeite and other green stones from which artists had made impressive pendants and necklaces for centuries. The relatively sudden appearance of gold and the specialized kn...
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Stendahl Galleries, Los Angeles; purchased by John G. Bourne, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1946; given to Walters Art Museum, 2013.
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