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Title: Guide leaflet
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history
Publisher: New York : The Museum
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
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AN ANCIENT CHINESE NECKLACEThese cyUndrical beads are roughly carved fromChinese jade. They belonjj; to the legendary pastof that fascinating old corner of the Orient. (Specimen from the Drummond Gift) tance of the artificer to waste any of thematerial of the rarer and consequentlymore precious stone, or possibly somesymbolism may have been attached to itsregular natural shape. At least thistreatment of emerald may be observednot only in Egyptian jewlery but also inthat of Cyprus and Etruria. From the necklace composed of strungbeads it is but a step to one in which theroughly shaped stones were encased in ametal setting. In Egypt we find thisadvance taking place at quite an earlystage, as instanced by an example in thecollection of the Metropolitan Museum ofArt, where a small, square plaque of goldenclosing an oval carnelian forms themiddle element of a double string ofunset carnehan beads. AMERICAN MUSEUM GUIDE LEAFLET
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TWO NECKLACES OF AGATEThe Gallo-Roman people of France in the early centuries of our era fancied agate for their necklaces^some of the heavier of which were worn by men. These two come from the Department of Gard in Languedoc From very early times until approxi-mately the period of Ptolemaic kings wefind the Egyptians making use of a sortof mosaic of gem stones, turquois, andlapis lazuli, set in thin gold boxes, thelatter being shaped to the design so that,when the whole was polished, it had some-what the aspect of the cloisonne work ofRussia. The transition from such primitivecombinations of gem stones with theprecious metals, to the more elaboratesettings of Greece, Rome, and the latercultures of Europe and Asia is both easyand obvious, and once made, the develop-ment of jewelry forms was simply amatter of that artistic progress whichfollows so closely upon historic andpolitical progress. As the needs of anever advancing civilization called formore and more varied ornamentation of d

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