The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 28, 2024

Straight Pin

Straight Pin

c. 500 BCE
Location: 102D Pre-Roman

Did You Know?

This pin was likely used to pin back women’s hair.

Description

This gold straight pin is topped with a red glass bead set in a finial. Braided gold wire and granulated triangles surround the bead. Tiny spheres forming more triangles decorate the underside of the finial, some perhaps lost. The pin is gently twisted below the finial. Although it appears to be garnet, the bead in this pin was determined to be glass after close examination by two gemologists from the Natural History Museum.
  • (Mathias Komor, New York, NY, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Max Ratner)
    ?-1978
    Mr. and Mrs. Max Ratner, Cleveland, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1978-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • "Annual Report for 1978." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 66, no. 5 (1979). p. 192 www.jstor.org
  • Year in Review: 1978. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 13-March 18, 1979).
  • {{cite web|title=Straight Pin|url=false|author=|year=c. 500 BCE|access-date=28 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1978.25