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| Keywords: Frankish - Necklace - Walters 47596 - View A.jpg This simple but colorful necklace is composed of fifty beads most of which are glass or ceramic with a single amethyst bead Similar necklaces have been found in the graves of Frankish women in the Rhineland This necklace is one of 21 said to have been excavated at Niederbreisig Germany mid 6th-7th century Early Medieval glass ceramic amethyst bronze gold cm 2 6 57 2 6 accession number 47 596 11266 Friedrich Queckenberg Niederbreisig Germany ca 1890 Joseph Queckenberg Niederbreisig Germany 1909 by inheritance Heinrich Dreesen Sinzig Germany Jacques Seligmann Paris J Pierpont Morgan New York Metropolitan Museum of Art New York no 17 193 74 Sale 4629Y Sotheby Park Bernet Inc New York May 29 1981 lot no 25 Walters Art Museum 1981 by purchase Museum purchase in memory of Eloise Mackie Childs 1981 3000 Years of Glass Treasures from The Walters Art Gallery The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1982 Vive la France French Treasures from the Middle Ages to Monet The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1999-2000 place of origin Malkata present-day Western Thebes Egypt Walters Art Museum license Medieval metalwork in the Walters Art Museum Jewellery in the Walters Art Museum Merovingian jewellery Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Niederbreisig Vive la France French Treasures from the Middle Ages to Monet | ||||
