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Appliqués or Beads

Place of OriginGreece, probably Peloponnesos or from Crete
DateProbably Late Helladic III, about the 14th-12th century BCE
DimensionsL: 11 in. (27.9 cm); W: 7/8 in (2.2 cm); L (lozenge-shaped spacer beads): 3/4 in. (1.9 cm); L (barrel-shaped spacer beads): 11/16 in. (1.7 cm)
MediumCast in open, one-piece molds; spacer beads cast and cut.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1953.139
Not on View
Collections
  • Glass
Published ReferencesRiefstahl, Rudolf M., "Ancient and Near Eastern Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News 4, no. 2, 1961, p. 29.

Riefstahl, Rudolf M., "The Complexities of Ancient Glass," Apollo 86, 1967, pp. 429-430, fig 4.

Labino, Dominick, Visual Art in Glass, Dubuque, Iowa, 1968, pp. 17-18, fig. 6.

Engle, A., "Ancient Glass in Its Context," Readings in Glass History, no. 10, Jerusalem, 1978, p. 24, ill.

Grose, David F., "Ancient Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News 20, no. 3, 1978, p. 71, fig. 4.

Grose, David F., "The Origins and Early History of Glass," in The History of Glass, eds. Dan Klein and Ward Lloyd, London, 1984, p. 11, ill.

Grose, David F., Early Ancient Glass: Core-formed, Rod-Formed, and Cast Vessels and Objects from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Roman Empire, 1600 B. C. to A. D. 50, New York, Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, 1989, Cat. no. 25, p. 65, repr. (col.) p. 44.

Exhibition HistorySmith College Museum of Art, Northhampton, MA, A Land Called Crete; Minoan and Mycenaean Art from American and European Private and Public Collections, ex. cat., 1967, no. 55.

Hackens, T. and R. Winkes, eds., Gold Jewelry: Craft, Style, and Meaning from Mycenae to Constantinopolis, ex. cat., Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, February-April 1983, Louvain, 1983, p. 42, no. 5 (W. E. Mierse).

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