Earring (1200s): Art, History and Details
Earring at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1200s, bronze. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Earring (1200s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
This earring is in the form of naga, or water serpent, one of the most popular decorative motifs in Cambodian art. While bronze objects such as furniture and palanquin fittings and finials, hooks, rings, etc., were among the most typical items of the classical Angkorean art (12th–13th century), jewelry is very rare. Originally, it must have been gilt. It is conceivable that this earring may not have been used as a regular ear ornament but enhanced a Khmer sculpture, a common practice, which would explain their heavy weight and large size.
Object facts
- Title: Earring
- Date: 1200s
- Culture: Cambodia
- Type: Jewelry
- Technique: bronze
- Dimensions: Overall: 6.4 x 3.7 cm (2 1/2 x 1 7/16 in.)
- Collection: Cambodian Art
- Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Accession number: 1984.63.1
Collection credit
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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