Cleveland Museum of Art
String of Glass Beads
- Date
- 400s CE
- Medium
- glass
- Culture
- Korea, Three Kingdoms period (57 BCE–668 CE)
- Department
- Korean Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 97492
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
An enormous amount of beaded strings and necklaces were excavated from Silla tomb sites. Glass, largely produced in ancient Rome since the late 1st century, also reached the Korean peninsula through the Silk Road, the ancient global trade route. Yet cobalt blue glass beads shown in this string are highly likely to be soda glass produced in the Silla territory. Glass, largely produced in ancient Rome since the late 1st century, also reached the Korean peninsula through the Silk Road, the ancient global trade route. Yet, cobalt blue glass beads shown in this work are highly likely to have been produced in the Silla territory.
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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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