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Appliqué with a Kore

Date

525–500 B.C.

Medium

Gold and glass

Culture

Etruscan (Caeretan)

Department

Jewelry

Institution

Getty Museum

An appliqué worked in repousse depicts a Kore, standing frontally with both arms along her sides and the left hand pulling her belted chiton to the side. Within the filigree wires of her diadem and necklace pendants are traces of blue glass paste. Glass paste inserts may also have filled her pupils, which are pierced. On each side of the head, twisted wires form a single braid, which falls over the breasts and terminates in a gold granule. The strips of gold that fastened the relief to a missing backer or frame are intact. A series of kore appliqués, used to decorate clothing or most likely a belt, are known from several tombs at Cerveteri and possibly Praeneste. Several have perforations around the edge for stitching to cloth or leather.

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