Net Pattern Bowl Link Bracelet
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Each link in this delicate bracelet is a detail inspired by a Greek second century silver and garnet bowl in the museum's collection at the Getty Villa. The bracelet is created entirely by hand utilizing the ancient metalwork technique known as repousse. Each medallion is .925 sterling silver with a garnet in the center. The central medallion is silver and 18 karat gold with a garnet.
Bracelet is 8" long and each small link is 5/8" in diameter. The center medallion is 7/8" in diameter.
Gilded and inlaid with gems, the small silver bowl that inspired this bracelet demonstrates how artistic styles intermingled in the ancient Near East in the first century B.C. The dynamic decoration is composed primarily of a net of two rows of eight staggered pentagons, arranged around a central leaf calyx of Near Eastern type. Each individual pentagon frames a rosettelike flower with a garnet in the center. Another garnet marks the center of the bowl. The pentagon, or net-pattern composition, is part of the Greek-Hellenistic repertoire that came into use in the second century B.C., and the mixture of it with the central calyx and the flowers suggests the work of a Hellenized Near Eastern atelier.
Each link in this delicate bracelet is a detail inspired by a Greek second century silver and garnet bowl in the museum's collection at the Getty Villa. The bracelet is created entirely by hand utilizing the ancient metalwork technique known as repousse. Each medallion is .925 sterling silver with a garnet in the center. The central medallion is silver and 18 karat gold with a garnet.
Bracelet is 8" long and each small link is 5/8" in diameter. The center medallion is 7/8" in diameter.
Gilded and inlaid with gems, the small silver bowl that inspired this bracelet demonstrates how artistic styles intermingled in the ancient Near East in the first century B.C. The dynamic decoration is composed primarily of a net of two rows of eight staggered pentagons, arranged around a central leaf calyx of Near Eastern type. Each individual pentagon frames a rosettelike flower with a garnet in the center. Another garnet marks the center of the bowl. The pentagon, or net-pattern composition, is part of the Greek-Hellenistic repertoire that came into use in the second century B.C., and the mixture of it with the central calyx and the flowers suggests the work of a Hellenized Near Eastern atelier.
