Cleveland Museum of Art
String of Glass Beads
- Date
- 1392–1910
- Medium
- glass
- Culture
- Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910)
- Department
- Korean Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 97498
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
An enormous amount of beaded strings and necklaces were excavated from Silla tomb sites. Glass, largely produced first in ancient Rome and then in Egypt and many central Asian states, reached the Korean peninsula through the Silk Road, the ancient global trade route. The glass beads used for this string must have been considered imported luxury materials. Accessories such as a string of glass beads were among various burial items in the Joseon period (1392–1910).
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- Credit line
- Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
- Provenance
- ?-1917: (Yamanaka and Company, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1917-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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