Ancient greek bracelet

Hinged Cuff Bracelet (circa. 1479-1425 B.C.) housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as decorative armor. Crafted from a variety of materials, such as silver, leather and wood, cuffs were often adorned with an assortment of beads, engravings, and semiprecious stones.

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Jewelry - Etruscan, Ancient, Craftsmanship: In Etruria, to a much greater extent than elsewhere, the stimulus provided by the jewelry imported by the Phoenicians led to emulation that soon had imposing results. Alongside imported objects and mechanically repeated southwest Asian motifs, original forms, techniques, and styles developed that were the result of Etruscan taste. There was an entirely new concept, in which the goals of magnificence, impressive size, and a great wealth of…

HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH-3RD CENTURY B.C.

Muscarella, Oscar White. 1974. Ancient Art: The Norbert Schimmel Collection no. 71, Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern.Milleker, Elizabeth J. 1992. "Ancient Art: Gifts from The Norbert Schimmel Collection: Greek and Roman

This outstanding example of jewelry from the 1st-century BCE Greek colonies in the Black Sea region is purported to belong to the famed Olbia treasure, named for the town in present-day Ukraine in which it was discovered at the end of the 19th century. Whether the bracelets, necklaces, earrings, dress ornaments, and other items in the Walters' collection really came from the same tomb remains unclear. These impressive bracelets have a centerpiece linked by hinges to the two arms. Each…

Heavy, rigid gold bracelets like this pair are opened by the pins S beside the medallions at their centers. The grapevines decorating these bracelets were made by attaching small gold sheets worked as leaves and triangular groups of grapes to thick gold wires

We have this false idea that the classical age was a time of restraint and good taste. Actually, of course, Greek and Roman statues and temples were painted bright colors, and everything else was as colorful as people could afford to make it. The best and gaudiest goldsmiths ever were the Greek masters, who were at their height between about 450 and 100 BC. This was a time of cultural blending, especially after Alexander's conquests, when Macedonian generals ruled from Afghanistan to Nubia…

Spiral bracelets in the form of snakes were very popular in the Hellenistic period. In this single spiral example, the snake's head turns sharply from the body as if striking, and the inlaid glass eyes add to the lively effect.