Art Institute of Chicago
Bracelet
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- Date
- 14th-15th century
- Medium
- Glass
- Department
- Arts of Africa
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 941
For hundreds of years, women up and down the eastern coast of Africa wore bracelets like these as highly fashionable accessories. Simple monochromatic glass bangles first became common in Egypt beginning in the Ptolemaic Period (332–30 BCE), with multiple color chips and new designs emerging during the Roman period (30 BCE–395 CE). After the arrival of Islam in the 7th century, elaborately designed bracelets became the norm. Glass workshops continued to produce such bangles until the end of the 19th century.
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- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Henry H. Getty and Charles L. Hutchinson
- Provenance
- Reverend Chauncey Murch (1859-1907), Luxor, Egypt; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1894; price reimbursed by Henry H. Getty and Charles L. Hutchinson, 1894.
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- Object type
- AAT300209261
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