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Collection Online as of December 20, 2025

Chain with Pendant Cross

500s

Byzantium, early Byzantine period, 6th century

gold, glass, pearl, garnet, and sapphire
Overall: 28.6 cm (11 1/4 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1947.34
Location: 104 Late Antiquity
  • -1947
    (Mrs. Paul Mallon, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    -1947
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.), and Dorothy Eugenia Miner. Early Christian and Byzantine Art, An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, April 25-June 22 [1947]. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1947. cat.no.432
    Milliken, William M. "Byzantine Jewelry and Associated Pieces." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 34, no. 7 (1947). p. 172 www.jstor.org
    Milliken, William. "Byzantine Goldsmith Work." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 41, no. 8 (October 1954): 190-192. Mentioned: p. 191 www.jstor.org
  • Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (April 25- June 22, 1947).
  • {{cite web|title=Chain with Pendant Cross|url=false|author=|year=500s|access-date=20 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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