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Object NameGilt-bronze Ornament Decorated with Glass Beads

Made FromGlass, Bronze, Metal

Date1334-1573

Place MadeJapan

Techniquecoiled, gilt

SizeOverall W: 12.1 cm; Individual Beads Diam (max): 0.4 cm

Accession Number61.6.6

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Not On View

Physical DescriptionBeads: translucent green and amber and opaque black glasses; coiled. Ornament: open-work leaf-shape bronze parts, curving upward from a six-petaled bronze flower form with circular opening which was a means of attaching by rod to some complex Buddhist ornament; inner incised leaf shapes, to three of which gilt-bronze balls are attached; flat metal band following these leaf shapes are strung with the beads, and riveted at bottom to metal frame and, at the top, run through loops.
Provenance

Source Dorothy Blair - 1961-04-03