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String of Glass Beads
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About this work
An enormous amount of beaded strings and necklaces were excavated from Silla tomb sites. Glass, largely produced in ancient Rome since the late 1st century, also reached the Korean peninsula through the Silk Road, the ancient global trade route. Yet cobalt blue glass beads shown in this string are highly likely to be soda glass produced in the Silla territory.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineString of Glass Beads (구슬 목걸이 [瑠璃玉頸飾]), 400s CE. Korea, Three Kingdoms period (57 BCE–668 CE). Glass. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, 1917.1058
