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Glass Beads with Pendant
57 BCE–668 CE
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
An enormous amount of beaded strings and necklaces were excavated from Silla tomb sites. Glass, largely produced in ancient Rome since the late 1st century, also reached the Korean peninsula through the Silk Road, the ancient global trade route. Yet the blue glass beads shown in this necklace are highly likely to be soda glass produced in the Silla territory.
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- Title: Glass Beads with Pendant
- Date Created: 57 BCE–668 CE
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 3 x 4.5 cm (1 3/16 x 1 3/4 in.); Each bead: 0.9 x 0.9 cm (3/8 x 3/8 in.)
- Provenance: (Yamanaka and Company, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Jewelry
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.1062
- Medium: glass
- Fun Fact: Glass, largely produced in ancient Rome since the late 1st century, also reached the Korean peninsula through the Silk Road, the ancient global trade route.
- Department: Korean Art
- Culture: Korea, Three Kingdoms period (57 BCE–668 CE)
- Credit Line: Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
- Collection: Korean Art
- Accession Number: 1917.1062
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