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Aegean
Amber Necklace from Mycenae
16th c BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

 

Aegean
Amber Necklace from Mycenae
16th-15th c BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

 

Greek
Amulet with a Running Medusa
c. 500-400 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Mesopotamian
Beaded Necklace
c. 1400-1200 BCE, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

 

Mesopotamian
Beaded Necklace with Pendants
c. 2000 BCE, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

 

Pre-Columbian
Bells from a Necklace
c. 1469, Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City

 

Visigothic
Belt Buckle
6th c, Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid

 

Byzantine
Belt Buckle
c. 600-700, British Museum, London

 

Central Asian
Belt Buckle in the Form of a Horse
c. 500-400 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Frankish
Belt Buckle with a Griffin Drinking from a Fountain
c. 600-700, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Central Asian
Belt Buckle with a Tiger and a Monster
c. 400-200 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Belt Buckle with Figures under a Tree
c. 400-200 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Belt Buckle with Griffin Heads
c. 520-480 BCE, Musée Barbier-Muller, Geneva

 

Frankish
Belt Buckle with Interlace Motif
c. 600-700, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Roman
Belt Buckle with Peter and Paul Embracing
c. 400-500, Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompeii, Pompeii

 

Central Asian
Belt Plaque with a Monster Attacking a Horse
c. 400-200 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Belt Plaque with a Vulture Mauling a Yak and a Tiger
c. 400-100 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Belt Plaque with Boar Hunting Scene
c. 300-100 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Central Asian
Belt Plaque with Dragons and Tree of Life
c. 200-100 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Frankish
Belt Tip with Gilding and Niello
c. 500-600, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Viking
Bird-Shaped (Pelican?) Brooch
c. 1000-1100, Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen

 

Frankish
Bow Fibula
c. 500-550, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Frankish
Bow Fibula
c. 550-650, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Frankish
Bow Fibula
c. 550-600, private collection

 

Roman
Bracelet in the Form of a Snake
before 79, British Museum, London

 

Greek
Bracelet with Lion Terminals
c. 450-350 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

   

Islamic
Bracelets
c. 1000-1100, Kuwait National Museum, Kuwait City

 

Egyptian
Bracelets of Queen Hetep-heres
c. 2575-2528 BCE, Egyptian Museum, Cairo

 

Oceanic
Breastplate
c. 1850-1950, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Celtic
Brooch with Hanging Pendants
c. 1200-800 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Celtic
Brooch with Spirals
c. 1400-1100 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Celtic
Brooch with Spirals
c. 1200-800 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Frankish
Buckle
c. 600-650, private collection

 

Frankish
Buckle and Tongue of Queen Aregund
c. 550-600, Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

 

Anglo-Saxon
Buckle from the Sutton Hoo Ship Burial
c. 600-650, British Museum, London

 

Frankish
Buckle of Saint Caesarius
c. 500-550, Musée de l'Arles et de la Provence Antiques, Arles

 

Celtic
Buckle with Arched Back
c. 300-200 BCE, private collection

 

Viking
Buckle with Figure in a Horned Helmet
c. 600-700, Institute of Archaeology, Oxford

 

Aegean
Bucranium Earring from Mavro Spelio
c. 1400-1200 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Iraklion

 

Greek
Bull's-Head Earring
c. 300-250 BCE, Athens

 

Native American
Ceremonial Neck Ring
c. 1850-1900, Burke Museum, Seattle

 

Mesopotamian
Chaplet of Gold Leaves
c. 2600-2500 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Central Asian
Comb with Battle Scene
c. 530-490 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

   

Egyptian
Comb with the Figure of a Gazelle
c. 4000-3500 BCE, Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

 

Pre-Columbian
Crescent Nose Ornament
c. 1-700, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Byzantine
Crossbow Fibula
c. 480, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Mesopotamian
Cuff
c. 2600-2400 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

 

Paleolithic
Cylinder Beads
c. 38,000-18,000 BCE, Moravská Galerie, Brno

 

Celtic
Diadem
c. 1200-800 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Egyptian
Diadem with Deer and Gazelle Heads
c. 1640-1550 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Frankish
Digitated Fibula
c. 500-600, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Ostrogothic
Disc-Shaped Fibula
c. 500-600, Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona

 

Etruscan
Disk Fibula
c. 650 BCE, Musei Vaticani, Rome

 

Frankish
Disk Fibula
c. 600-700, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Visigothic
Eagle Brooch
c. 500-600, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Ostrogothic
Eagle Brooch
c. 450-550, private collection

 

Pre-Columbian
Eagle Head Labret
before 1521, Museo Civico d'Arte Antica, Turin

 

Pre-Columbian
Ear-Plug with Image of the God of Wind
c. 800-1521, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Pre-Columbian
Ear-Spools
c. 1460-1521, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Central Asian
Earring
c. 500-450 BCE, National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Astana

 

Greek
Earrings
c. 330-300 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Celtic
Fibula with Twisted Bow
c. 600 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Paleolithic
Flying Swan Pendant
c. 38,000-18,000 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Paleolithic
Forked Ivory Pendant
c. 28,000-22,000 BCE, Moravská Galerie, Brno

   

Paleolithic
Fossil Coral Pendant
c. 17,000-11,000 BCE, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago

 

Anglo-Saxon
The Fuller Brooch
c. 875-900, British Museum, London

 

Greek
Funerary Laurel Wreath
c. 330-27 BCE, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

 

Greek
Geometric Necklace and Earrings from the Agora, Athens
c. 850 BCE, Agora Museum, Athens

 

Egyptian
The Girdle of Hepy
c. 1929-1841 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Frankish
Griffin Fibula
c. 550-600, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Persian
Griffin-Headed Armlet from the Oxus Treasure
c. 550-400 BCE, British Museum, London

   

Viking
The Gummersmark Brooch
c. 50-600, Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen

 

Japanese
Hair Pin with Circular Mistletoe Design
c. 1920-1940, private collection

 

Japanese
Hair Pin with Triangular Design
c. 1925-1935, private collection

 

Mesopotamian
Headdress of Puabi
c. 2550-2400 BCE, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

   

Paleolithic
Horse Pendant
c. 32,000 BCE, Institut fur Urgeschichte, Tubingen

 

Frankish
Jewelry of Queen Arnegunde
c. 580-590, Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

 

English
The Langdale Rosary
c. 1500, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Pre-Columbian
Lip-Plug in the Shape of a Bird
c. 1400-1521, Museum für Völkerkunde Wien, Vienna

 

Native American
Long Nosed God Ear Ornament
c. 1100-1200, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa

 

Native American
Long Nosed God Maskette Ear Ornaments
c. 1000-1400, private collection

 

Paleolithic
Mammoth Pendant with Incised Signs
c. 32,000 BCE, Institut fur Urgeschichte, Tubingen

 

French
Mantle Clasp with the Annunciation
c. 1325, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

American
Masonic Jewel
1790-1810, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven

 

Roman
The Medallion of Galla Placidia
c. 390-450, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

 

Oceanic
Necklace
c. 1800-1850, private collection

 

Oceanic
Necklace
c. 1700-1900, private collection

 

Central Asian
Necklace
c. 450-400 BCE, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

 

Egyptian
Necklace
c. 1550-1295 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Aegean
Necklace and Earrings from Dendra
c. 1500-1435 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

 

Greek
Necklace from Spata
c. 725-700 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

 

Paleolithic
Necklace of Beads and Ivory Pendants from Malt’a
c. 21,000 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Paleolithic
Necklace of Fox Teeth and Beads, from Sungir
c. 23,000-20,000 BCE, Vladimir-Suzdal Regional Museum, Vladimir

 

Paleolithic
Necklace of Incised Deer Teeth
c. 17,000-11,000 BCE, Musée d'Aquitaine, Bordeaux

 

Roman
Necklace of Linked Circles with Crescent Pendant
before 79, Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, Pompeii

 

Paleolithic
Necklace of Seashells and Bear and Lion Teeth
c. 16,000-8,000 BCE, Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit

 

Greek
Necklace of Smooth Beads with Two Terminals
c. 400-300 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Egyptian
Necklace with a Sanctuary-Shaped Pectoral
c. 890, Egyptian Museum, Cairo

 

Greek
Necklace with Box-Shaped Links and Graniform Pendants
c. 450-425 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Byzantine
Necklace with Cross and Ornaments
c. 500-600, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Egyptian
Necklace with Fly-Shaped Pendants, from the Tomb of Ahhotep
c. 1560-1530 BCE, Egyptian Museum, Cairo

 

Byzantine
Necklace with Ornaments
c. 500-600, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Pre-Columbian
Nose Ornament
c. 1480, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Greek
Oak Leaf and Acorn Crown
c. 340-310 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Thessaloniki

 

Greek
Pair of Armbands with Tritoness and Triton Holding Erotes
c. 200 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

   

Roman
Pair of Asymmetrical Ansated Fibulae with Chain
c. 390-450, Musée de Normandie, Caen

 

Frankish
Pair of Bow Fibulae
c. 500-600, private collection

 

Persian
Pair of Bracelets with Winged Caprid Terminals
c. 600-300 BCE, Miho Museum, Shigaraki

 

Pre-Columbian
Pair of Earflares
c. 900-500 BCE, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City

 

Frankish
Peacock Fibula
c. 550-600, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Etruscan
Pectoral
c. 650 BCE, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Pre-Columbian
Pectoral
c. 300-1000, Museo del Oro del Banco de la República, Bogotá

 

Egyptian
Pectoral of Senusret II
c 1938-1755 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Byzantine
Pendant
c. 500-700, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond

 

Pre-Columbian
Pendant
c. 1200-1521, British Museum, London

 

Pre-Columbian
Pendant
c. 1200-1521, British Museum, London

 

Pre-Columbian
Pendant depicting Masked Priestly Figure
c. 1200-1600, Museo del Oro del Banco de la República, Bogotá

 

Greek
Pendant from Kameiros
650-601 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Paleolithic
Pendant in the Form of a Miniature Female Figure
c. 28,000-18,000 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Aegean
Pendant with Bees and Honeycomb
c. 1700-1550 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Iraklion

   

Paleolithic
Pendant with Concentric Circles
c. 16,000-8,000 BCE, Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

 

Greek
Pendant with the Head of Athena
c. 400-350 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Paleolithic
Pendant, possibly Human Figure
c. 32,000-26,000 BCE, Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit

 

Italian
Pilgrim's Badge with Saints Peter and Paul
c. 1200-1500, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Viking
Pin with Dragon Head
c. 950-1000, Archäologisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottorf

 

Pre-Columbian
Plumed Diadem with Mask and Pendants
c. 1300-1500, Museo del Oro del Banco de la República, Bogotá

 

Italian
Pomander
c. 1350, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

English
Pomander
c. 1600-1620, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

 

German
Pomander
c. 1500-1550, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

 

Italian
Reliquary Cross with the Instruments of the Passion
c. 1600, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

   

Greek
Rosette with Bird, Griffins and Bees
7th c BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

 

Egyptian
Roundel with Offering Scene (Fragment from the Menit of Harsiese)
c. 800-500 BCE, Ägyptisches Museum and Papyrussammlung, Berlin

 

Roman
Seal Ring of Marcus Fabius Rufus
before 79, Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, Pompeii

 

Pre-Columbian
Shield Pendant
c. 1500, Baluarte de Santiago, Veracruz

 

Italian
Ship Pendant
c. 1590-1600, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

American
Shoe Buckles
c. 1780-1790, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

 

Anglo-Saxon
Shoulder Clasp from the Sutton Hoo Ship Burial
c. 600-650, British Museum, London

   

Aegean
Signet Ring with a Sacrificial Scene
c. 1500-1400 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

 

Aegean
Signet Ring with Cult Scene
c. 1500 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

 

Aegean
Signet Ring with Offering Scene
c. 1500-1400 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, Athens

 

Aegean
Signet Ring with Ritual Scene
c. 1400-1100 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Iraklion

 

Aegean
Signet Ring with Tree Cult Scene
c. 1450-1400 BCE, Archaeological Museum, Iraklion

 

Egyptian
Single-Strand Necklace with Taweret Amulets
c. 1332-1292 BCE, Brooklyn Museum

 

Paleolithic
Sitting Bear Pendant
c. 16,000-8,000 BCE, Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

 

Celtic
The Snettisham Torque
c. 100 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Central Asian
Spiral Bracelet with Zoomorphic Terminals
c. 100 BCE - 100 CE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Anglo-Saxon
Square-Headed Brooch
c. 500-600, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Anglo-Saxon
Square-Headed Fibula
c. 550-600, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Anglo-Saxon
The Strickland Brooch
c. 850, British Museum, London

 

Mesopotamian
String of Beads
c. 2400-2250 BCE

 

Mesopotamian
String of Beads with Rosette
c. 2600-2400 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

 

Egyptian
Strung Amulets with Clasp
c. 2055-1650 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Pre-Columbian
Sun Mask (Diadem)
c. 900-1250, Museo Arqueológico Bruning, Lambayeque

 

Viking
Thor's Hammer Pendant
c. 900-950, Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen

 

Viking
Thor's Hammer Pendant with Christian Cross
c. 900-1000, Archäologisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottorf

 

English
Three-Drop Pendant
c. 1575-1625, Museum of London

 

Celtic
Torc
c. 300-1 BCE, Musée Nationale du Moyen-Âge, Paris

 

Central Asian
Torc with Horned and Winged Lions
c. 400-250 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

   

Celtic
Torque
c. 100-1 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Central Asian
Torque with Zoomorphic Terminals
c. 400-300 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

English
The Torre Abbey Jewel
c. 1540-1550, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

Viking
Valkyrie Pendant
c. 800-1050, Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen

 

English
Victorian jewelry made from Mesopotamian cylinder seals
c. 1869, British Museum, London

 

Roman
Wing Fibula
c. 100-200, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Egyptian
Winged Scarab of Psusennes I
c. 1039-991 BCE, Egyptian Museum, Cairo

 

Mesopotamian
Wreath from Ur
c. 2600-2400 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

 

Anni Albers [German, 1899 – 1994]
Necklace
c. 1940, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Robert Baines [Australian, born 1949]
Bracelet
1994, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

 

Gijs Bakker [Dutch, born 1942]
Adam
1988, private collection

 

Gijs Bakker [Dutch, born 1942]
Waterman Brooch
1990, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

 

Boris Bally [American, born 1961]
Brave #2
2006, Museum of Arts and Design, New York

 

Max Benirschke [Austrian, 1880 – 1961]
Necklace
1906-1907, private collection

 

Harry Bertoia [American, 1915 – 1978]
Earrings
1948, private collection

 

Harry Bertoia [American, 1915 – 1978]
Necklace
c. 1940-1945, private collection

 

Harry Bertoia [American, 1915 – 1978]
Tree Hair Ornament
1950, private collection

 

Liv Blåvarp [Norwegian, born 1956]
Necklace
1993, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

 

Auguste Bonaz [French, 1877 – 1922]
Necklace
c. 1930-1940, private collection

 

Louise Bourgeois [American, 1911 – 2010]
Metal Bar Choker
1948/1998, private collection

 

Georges Braque [French, 1882 – 1963]
Circe Brooch
1962, private collection

 

Bury, Claus [German, born 1946]
Brooch
1972, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

 

Alexander Calder [American, 1898 – 1976]
Belt Buckle
c. 1940, Calder Foundation, New York

 

Alexander Calder [American, 1898 – 1976]
Belt Buckle/Pendant
after 1926, private collection

 

Alexander Calder [American, 1898 – 1976]
Bird Brooch
c. 1945, private collection

 

Alexander Calder [American, 1898 – 1976]
Bird Brooch
c. 1945, Calder Foundation, New York

 

Alexander Calder [American, 1898 – 1976]
Bones Necklace
c. 1940, private collection

 

Alexander Calder [American, 1898 – 1976]
Bracelet
1935, private collection

 

Alexander Calder [American, 1898 – 1976]
Brooch
c. 1945, private collection

 

Alexander Calder [American, 1898 – 1976]
Brooch
c. 1955, private collection

 

Alexander Calder [American, 1898 – 1976]
Brooch
c. 1955, private collection

 

Alexander Calder [American, 1898 – 1976]
Brooch
c. 1940-1950, private collection

 

Alexander Calder [American, 1898 – 1976]
Chainmail Necklace
c. 1940, Calder Foundation, New York

 

Alexander Calder [American, 1898 – 1976]
Early Bug Brooch
c. 1940, Calder Foundation, New York

 

Alexander Calder [American, 1898 – 1976]
Fish Brooch
c. 1940, Calder Foundation, New York

 

Alexander Calder [American, 1898 – 1976]
Fish Brooch
c. 1942, Calder Foundation, New York

 

Alexander Calder [American, 1898 – 1976]
GT Pin
c. 1940 or later, private collection

 

Alexander Calder [American, 1898 – 1976]
Hair Comb
c. 1940, Calder Foundation, New York

 

Alexander Calder [American, 1898 – 1976]
Hair Comb
c. 1940, Calder Foundation, New York

 

Alexander Calder [American, 1898 – 1976]
Necklace
1939, private collection

 

Alexander Calder [American, 1898 – 1976]
Necklace
1941, private collection

 

Alexander Calder [American, 1898 – 1976]
Necklace
c. 1940, Calder Foundation, New York

 

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