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Straight Pin
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
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.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineStraight Pin, c. 500 BCE. Etruscan. Gold and glass; overall: 6.4 cm (2 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Max Ratner, 1978.25
