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Earring

CultureGreek
Date375-225 B.C.E.
MediumGold
DimensionsOverall: 2 15/16 inches (7.46 cm)
Credit LineGift of Veronica Bjorling and Diana Tolstoy
Object numberF93-19/1
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 104
Collections
Exhibition History
Discovery and Deceit: Archaeology and the Forger's Craft, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 3-January 5, 1996-1997.
Provenance

Possibly Tarentine [1];

 

Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967), by 1965-1967;

 

By descent to his daughters, Veronica Kempe Bjorling, Stockholm and Diana Kempe Tolstoy, Stockholm, 1967-1993;

 

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1993.

 

NOTES:

 

[1] See Herbert Hoffmann and Patricia Davidson, Greek Gold: Jewelry from the Age of Alexander, exh. cat. (Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum, 1965), 100.

Published References

Greek Gold: Jewelry from the Age of Alexander, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, November 22, 1965-January 2, 1966; The Brooklyn Museum, January 20-March 9, 1966; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, March 28-May 1, 1966, no. 22.

 

Ancient Jewellery--Greek, Etruscan and Roman--in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 31-December 30, 1973, no. 112.

 

Discovery and Deceit: Archaeology and the Forger’s Craft, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 3, 1996-January 5, 1997; Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, February 8, 1998-May 18, 1997.

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