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Ganymede jewelry

Period:
Hellenistic
Date:
ca. 330–300 B.C.
Culture:
Greek
Medium:
Gold, rock crystal, emerald
Dimensions:
length of necklace 13 in. (33 cm); H. of earrings 2 3/8 in. (6 cm); width of bracelets 3 1/8 in. (8 cm); width of fibulae 1 15/16 in. (5 cm); H. of ring 13/16 in. (2.1 cm)
Classification:
Gold and Silver
Credit Line:
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937
Accession Number:
37.11.8–.17

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 158

  • Provenance

    Said to be from near Thessaloniki (Richter 1937, p. 292).

    Around 1913, collection of M. Ritsos; 1913, purchased by F.L. von Gans from M. Ritsos, Thessaloniki, Greece; 1919, purchased by Kurt W. Bachstitz from von Gans, Frankfurt, Germany; acquired 1937, purchased from Bachstitz, New York.

  • References

    Zahn, R. 1913. "Die Sammlung Friedrich Ludwig von Gans im Antiquarium." Amtliche Berichte aus den königlichen Kunstsammlungen 35: cols. 73-74.

    Galerie Bachstitz. 1921. Vol. 2. The Hague, pp. 25-27, no. 91, pls. 22, 23.

    Richter, Gisela M.A. 1937. "The Ganymede Jewelry." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 32(12): pp. 290-92, 294, fig. 2.

    Grancsay, Stephen V. 1940. "The Art of the Jeweler: A Special Exhibition." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 35(11): p. 216.

    Amandry, P. 1963. Collection Hélène Stathatos. Vol. 3, Objets antiques et byzantins. Strasbourg, pp. 204, 209, ill. p. 208, fig. 113, d-f.

    Weber, M. 1976. "Zeus und Ganymed auf einem griechischen Handspiegel." Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung 91: 164, n. 63.

    Higgins, R. A. 1980. Greek and Roman Jewellery. 2nd ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 129, 164, 167, pls. 48, a, 51, a, 167, a.

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1982. The Search for Alexander; Supplement to the Catalogue. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, pp. 4-5, nos. S1-S10.

    Pfrommer, M. 1987. Studien zu alexandrinischer und grossgriechischer Toreutik frühhellenistischer Zeit. Berlin: Gebr. Mann, p. 20, n. 86.

    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 1988. Vol. 4, "Ganymedes," p. 164, no. 202. Zürich: Artemis.

    Schwarzmaier, A. 2000. "Nachklänge berühmter Meisterwerke auf griechischen Klappspiegeln." In From the Parts to the Whole: Acta of the 13th International Bronze Congress, edited by C. C. Mattusch, A. Brauer, and S. E. Knudson. Journal of Roman Archaeology, suppl., 39. Portsmouth, R.I.: Journal of Roman Archaeology, vol. 1, p. 149, n. 33.

    Woodford, S. 2003. Images of Myths in Classical Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 120, fig. 88L.

    Picón, Carlos A., et al. 2007. Art of the Classical World in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 197, pp. 170, 440.

    Picón, Carlos A. 2009. “Glass and Gold of the Hellenistic and Early Roman World.” In Philippe de Montebello and the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1977-2008, eds. James R. Houghton et al. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 19.

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