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Boston & Sandwich Glass Company
American, 1825–1888, Sandwich, Massachusetts
H. 4 1/16 in. (10.3 cm); Diam. 2 in. (5.1 cm)
medium: Blown glass
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 67.7.12 1967
Funds from various donors, 1967
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Silver finger-ringers were gifted or worn by both Omani men and women in a <em>Zār</em> ceremony to ward off evil.
Oman
silver
Diameter: 4.2 cm (1 5/8 in.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade
The vulture headdress was worn by goddesses and queens. This inlay in the form of a vulture headdress has more than 100 stones: lapis lazuli (dark blue), turquoise (light blue), petrified wood (red), and an unidentified white stone painstakingly cut to shape and separated by thin plates of gold. Body, wing, and tail feathers are carefully distinguished in minute detail.
Egypt, Greco-Roman period (332 BCE–395 CE), Ptolemaic dynasty (305–30 BCE)
gold and semi-precious stones
Overall: 3 x 2.8 cm (1 3/16 x 1 1/8 in.)
Did you know...
When creating this headdress, artisans used numerous semiprecious stones with inset partitions to keep them separate. To ensure that the stones would stay in place, a resin-like material was used as an adhesive.
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust