File:EB1911 Jewelry - Late Mycenaean from the Greek islands.jpg
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English: A late Mycenean period collection of gold ornaments from one of the Greek islands (said to be Aegina) which found its way to the British Museum. Here we find the themes of archaic Greek art, such as a figure holding up two water-birds, in immediate connexion with Mycenaean gold patterns. |
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| Date | published 1911 | |||
| Source | Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), v. 15, 1911, “Jewelry,” Plate I (between pp. 366 and 367), Figs. 49-53. | |||
| Author | Unknown jewellers and photographer | |||
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| Figs. | 49-53 | (Plate I.) | are specimens from this treasure. |
| ” | 49 | ” | Plate with repoussé ornament for sewing on a dress. |
| ” | 50 | ” | Pendant. Figure with two water-birds, on a lotus base, and having serpents issuing from near his middle, modified from Egyptian forms. |
| ” | 51 | ” | Ring, with cut blue glass-pastes in the grooves. |
| ” | 52 | ” | Pendant ornament, repoussé, and originally inlaid with pieces of cut glass-paste. |
| ” | 53 | ” | Pendant ornament, with dogs and apes, modified from Egyptian forms. |
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